Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

The Eve Of Saint Agnes [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION]

Keats, John; Charles O. Murray (Engravings)

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 17/50. Large Folio. 51 leaves. Original three-quarter blue leather over textured blue cloth with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering, tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Top edge gilt. Decorative floral endpapers, rendered in lithography. Frontispiece engraving. Title page with engraving. Decorative initials. Black ribbon marker. Signed "Edition limited to 50 copies No. 17 C. O. Murray" in blue handwriting on half-title. illustrated with nineteen etchings, including frontispiece and title page. All but the title page etching with C. O. Murray signature in plate, and reference to the respective stanza. All plates tissue guarded with heavy paper plates. Contains list of etchings at front. Light wear along edges of binding, some rubbing along hinges of spine. Offsetting to outer edges of endpapers from cover leather. Some offsetting of engravings to guards. Very good+ condition. Item #52357

Price: $550.00