KEATS, John
The Poems of John Keats
The Poems of John Keats
Cambridge: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1966
Illustrated by GENTLEMAN, David
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KEATS, John. The Poems. Cambridge: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1966.
337pp. 27.3x16.5cm. Limited to 1500 copies. Bound in three-piece style, with bright red cowhide on the shelfback, harmonising black linen cloth on the sides, black leather gilt printed title label bordered with a Greek key pattern on spine, and a portrait of Keats embossed on the upper cover, from a drawing by David Gentleman. Bound at the University Printing House, Cambridge, by Brooke Crutchley, printer to the University, on smooth antique stock paper specially-made for this book by the Hale Paper Company of London. Housed in a black slipcase with cream paper title label on edge.
Selected, edited and introduced by renowened Keats biographer Aileen Ward who received several accolades and awards for her 1963 biography of Keats "John Keats: The Making of a Poet". In her introduction, she links Keats the man with Keats the poet in a way that explains what she calls "the greatest miracle in English poetry".
“I have managed to visit almost all of the places where Keats himself lived or traveled,” Aileen Ward has told us, “and to look at the original manuscripts of most of his important poems. I found that a close reading of the first versions of Keats’s poems (in the original manuscripts wherever possible) brought them to life in interesting and unexpected ways. For instance, I discovered that a number of revisions in the final text of Endymion were the result not of Keats’s second thoughts but of the prudishness of his publisher, John Taylor. This may be the reason for the omission of two passages, one from near the end of Fancy, the other of two lines from near the end of Hyperion, which I have restored, from Keats’s own manuscript, in The Limited Editions Club text.”
Illustrated with nearly 80 line drawings and signed by English artist David Gentleman who studied art and painting at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. Of these, 12 are of full-page size and coloured with pastel tints reproduced through the Plastocowell medium.
"Mr. Gentleman has sympatethically echoed Keats' romantic approach to classic themes - you will note his warm colouring of the Elgin marbles, for example, and the way he has followed the poet in giving life to the Grecian vase."
Designed by John Dreyfus of London who also devised the format of the other volumes in the Limited Editions Club's British Poets series (this being the second, after Robert Burns). Dreyfus chose 12-point Bell as the main type, a type created in 1788 by Richard Austin for John Bell's British Foundry, and further modernised in 1932 by the Monotype Corporation.
A very good copy, binding firm and square, pages clean and uninscribed. In like slipcase that is ever-so-slightly worn to extremities.
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