John Keats
The Eve of St .Agnes, (1901)
(London: Essex House Press)
One of 125 copies, printed entirely on vellum.
2680
Octavo. 24pp. One of 125 copies, printed entirely on vellum. The second book of the 'Great Poems' series, this title is illustrated with an opening full-page, hand-colored wood engraving by...
Octavo. 24pp. One of 125 copies, printed entirely on vellum. The second book of the "Great Poems" series, this title is illustrated with an opening full-page, hand-colored wood engraving by Reginald Savage, and it is illuminated in colors and rubricated by an anonymous hand. Savage, according to Alan Crawford, was "the most characteristic illustrator of the...Press...[H]e belonged to the circle of Ricketts and Shannon, Sturge Moore and Pissarro...Savage had a strong feeling for the medium of wood engraving and cut some of his blocks for the Essex House Press himself; the result was illustrations which have some of the Pre-Raphaelite intensity with a coarser, more primitive line, such as Arts and Crafts people liked." Spine gilt slightly rubbed, few small spots to upper cover; overall a fine copy in full blind-stamped vellum, with the rose logo and the motto of the series, "Soul is Form."


