Front cover image for Lamia, Isabella, the eve of St. Agnes, and other poems.

Lamia, Isabella, the eve of St. Agnes, and other poems.

John Keats, Thomas Davison (Printer), Taylor and Hessey (Publisher)
Print Book, English, 1820
Printed [by Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet-Street., London:, 1820
[11], 4-199, [9] p. ; 19 cm (12mo)
927360557
Lamia
Isabella
The eve of St. Agnes
Ode to a nightingale
Ode on a Grecian urn
Ode to Psyche
Fancy
Ode
Lines of the Mermaid tavern
Robin Hood
To autumn
Ode on melancholy
Hyperion, a fragment
First edition of the author's third and final book, his second collection of poems; issued at the end of July 1820
Spine title: Lamia, Isabella &c
Printer's name from p. [2] and [200]: London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars
With half-title for Lamia on [A]1; title proper on [A]2; Table of contents on pi1 recto; Advertisement "If any apology be thought necessary for the appearance of the unfinished poem of Hyperion, ... Fleet-Street, June 26, 1820" on pi2 recto
Half title for Isabella on p. [47]; The eve of St. Agnes on p. [81]; [other] Poems on p. [105]; and Hyperion. A fragment on p. [143]
Publisher's advertisements (8 p.), "Books just published by Taylor and Hessey, 93, Fleet Street; Booksellers to His Royal Highness the Prince Leopold." bound at the end of the volume
The advertisements (p. [201]-[208]) are found in two states: Goldsmith's Citizen of the world appears at the top or bottom of p. [208]
Issued in light brown paper-covered boards, at 7s.6d
Signatures: [A]² pi² B-I¹² K⁴ chi⁴
Printed on wove paper. Watermark "B 1819" on [A]1, pi2, B5, C2, D6, E6, F1, G1, H1, and I6
Library copy: In the Advertisements, "Goldsmith's Citizen of the world" printed at the top of p. [208]. Binding: In publisher's original drab pale brown boards, with the original printed spine label. Provenance: inscription on front fly leaf: Mary A. Eaton