John Keats; H. W. Garrod [ed.] — Keats Poetical Works

London; New York; Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1970. Leather. A smart collection of John Keats poetry, bound in full blue calf, with charming gilt detail, by Bayntun's of Bath. A smart copy, bound in full blue calf, and decorated with gilt tooling along the spine.Additional decorated with charming and elegant gilt doublures, marbled endpapers and full gilt page edges.Bound locally, by Bayntun, an historic bookbinders based in Bath , and featuring their binder's stamp to the reverse of the front free endpaper.John Keats was one of the second generation of Romantic Poets, and a peer to Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.His work has dramatically outlived him in the centuries since his premature death of tuberculosis aged just 25, and has been an influence to poets since, including members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and figures such as William Morris, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Bound in full blue calf. Externally, very smart. Mild fading to spine. Slight rubbing to extremities. Moderate cracking to joints. Very small loss to front joint head. Hinges slightly starting, but firm. The odd scuff to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .