Thursday, November 13, 2014

1911 POEMS OF JOHN KEATS ILLUSTRATED BY AVERIL BURLEIGH

CA. 1911

POEMS OF JOHN KEATS

ILLUSTRATED WITH 24 COLOR PLATES BY AVERIL BURLEIGH
FIRST BURLEIGH ILLUSTRATED EDITION

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL FINE BINDING ~ PRE-RAPHAELITE, ART NOUVEAU, AND RENAISSANCE ILLUSTRATIONS ~ FAIRIES ~ MYTHOLOGY ~ CLASSIC POETRY ***

Publisher:
London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., no date, circa 1911.
The Press Printers, London.

Features:
• First Burleigh-illustrated Edition
• measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''
• beautiful publisher's original decorative cloth fine binding
• embossed gold gilt and color stamping
• textblock top edge gilt
• pictorial endpapers
• illustrated with 24 full-page color plates, including frontispiece with tissue-guard which has railroad watermark

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