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KEATS (JOHN)
Poems, FIRST EDITION, C. & J. Ollier, 1817

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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KEATS (JOHN)

Poems, FIRST EDITION, printed on wove paper watermarked 'John Dickson 1813', woodcut vignette of the head of Spenser on title-page, without the half-title and blank, light pencil cross in margin of 4 pages, slightly later green blind- and gilt-tooled calf, morocco spine label lettered "Keats's Poems", rubbed [MacGillivray 1], 8vo, C. & J. Ollier, 1817

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FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, containing nearly all the poems Keats is known to have written up to that date, including "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer". It was reviewed favourably in The Champion on 9 March, "but no one outside Keats's immediate circle showed any interest... [and] Little more than a month later a disappointed Charles Ollier wrote indignantly to George Keats of his regret at having published the volume" (ODNB).

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