Lot 74: KEATS, John (1795-1821). Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. London: by Thomas Davison for Taylor and Hessey, 1820.

12 o (177 x 105 mm). Half-title (verso with imprint), advertisement page (verso blank), 8-page publisher's catalogue at end (often lacking). Original paper boards, UNCUT (neatly rebacked, preserving most of the original backstrip and printed spine label, rear hinge slightly cracked, rubbed); red morocco, silk-lined clamshell case. Provenance : S.F. Lloyd (pencil signature, dated 1850, on front flyleaf) -- Frank Brewer Bemis (bookplate) -- Louis H. Silver (bookplate), sold in the sale of Newberry Library duplicates from the Silver accession, Sotheby's, 8 November 1965, lot 186 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 20 May 1966. Exhibited : Grolier Club, ' This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 58. FIRST EDITION. The poet's third and last book, comprising most of his efforts since Endymion and, containing, besides the poems named in the title, many of his best-known verses. These include three of the four great odes: "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode to Melancholy," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (concluding "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."), "To Autumn ("Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness')," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "Lines on the Mermaid Tavern," and, as the final work in the book, the brilliant but unfinished "Hyperion." Ashley III, 15; Grolier English 72; Hayward 233; MacGillivray 3.