Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats Author of Endymion, Hyperion, Etc.
Cambridge: W. Metcalfe, 1829. 8vo (212 x 138 mm). Full red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine with gilt title to second of six compartments, green endpapers. Red cloth slipcase. Condition: lightly foxed. Provenance: Bent Juel-Jenson (bookplate). rare first english edition of shelley’s tribute to keats, issued at Cambridge by a group of Shelley enthusiasts, including Richard Monckton Milnes and Arthur Hallam, who brought a copy of the 1821 Pisa edition from Italy. Graniss p.72; Wise, Ashley Library, p.79; Tinker 1902.
Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats Author of Endymion, Hyperion, Etc.
Cambridge: W. Metcalfe, 1829. 8vo (212 x 138 mm). Full red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine with gilt title to second of six compartments, green endpapers. Red cloth slipcase. Condition: lightly foxed. Provenance: Bent Juel-Jenson (bookplate). rare first english edition of shelley’s tribute to keats, issued at Cambridge by a group of Shelley enthusiasts, including Richard Monckton Milnes and Arthur Hallam, who brought a copy of the 1821 Pisa edition from Italy. Graniss p.72; Wise, Ashley Library, p.79; Tinker 1902.
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