ix, [errata leaf], 207 + [4] ad pp. 8¾x5½, later full green levant morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, top edge gilt. First Edition.

First edition of Keats' romantic epic, telling the story of the "brain-sick shepherd-prince" of Mt. Latmos and incorporating various figures and themes from Greek mythology. This was his second book, a year after the publication of Poems by John Keats. Though savagely criticized by Blackwood's Magazine and the Quarterly, the work helped to establish Keats among the forefront of the romantic poets of his day and ours. This copy with the 5-line errata leaf, and is complete with the half-title. Hayward 232. With bookplate of W.H. Thompson mounted on the rear flyleaf; on it is the pencil notation "preserve at back." Yellow piece of paper with ink name of Albert Horiwitz affixed to rear free endpaper.