La Belle Dame sans Merci
Eragny Press. Keats, John
London. Eragny Press. 1906
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An excellent copy of the Eragny Press edition of Keats' 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' with its variant.
From the edition limited to 210 copies.
The two versions of 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' printed here feature differences and 'variations [that] are very considerable'. Buxton Forman, whose explanation is printed in the book, thought that 'the 'Indicator' version is a revision of the other' and that an unpublished manuscript version was the source.
With a letter from Lucien and Esther Pissarro to Harold Pierce of Philadelphia asking him to return the copy as ' ... we have discovered a serious mistake in the title page. We have started to reprint and the binders will insert the corrected page. If you will kindly return your copy ... '.
The mistake was in the date on the title but this copy of the book was not returned but has a erratum page.
From the edition limited to 210 copies.
The two versions of 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' printed here feature differences and 'variations [that] are very considerable'. Buxton Forman, whose explanation is printed in the book, thought that 'the 'Indicator' version is a revision of the other' and that an unpublished manuscript version was the source.
With a letter from Lucien and Esther Pissarro to Harold Pierce of Philadelphia asking him to return the copy as ' ... we have discovered a serious mistake in the title page. We have started to reprint and the binders will insert the corrected page. If you will kindly return your copy ... '.
The mistake was in the date on the title but this copy of the book was not returned but has a erratum page.
[20 leaves + tipped-in errata leaf; pp.xxviii, (1), (1)]. 12mo. (80 x 110 mm). Hlaf-title with printed title in red and black within patterned frame and with vignette verso, six leaves with Keats' verse, leaf with explanatory text, six leaves with an alternate version of Keats' verse, leaf with colophon and final leaf with justification; opening of each version with large decorative initial in red and elaborate frame in red, printed text throughout in red and black with decorative text ornaments. Original publisher's blue paper-backed patterned paper-covered boards with white label with printed title to upper cover.
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