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Trouve Books
CincinnatiOH United States
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USD$5,000

Description

A limited edition collection of Keats' poetry (#95 of 500) bound by Gabrielle Fox in full alum-tawed goatskin with red and green goatskin onlays, raised and recessed images, and gold tooling. Endpaper illustrations created with layers of Tengujo tissue. Matching Box in red buckram. Letterpress printed on handmade paper and illustrated with plate engravings by Robert Gibbings. Design influenced by the paper, typography and illustrations as much as by the poems. Selected by and exhibited at North Bennet Street School with Heroic Works, part of the Designer Bookbinders International Competition in conjunction with the Bodleian Libraries.

About The Eve of St. Agnes

The Eve of St. Agnes is a romantic poem written by John Keats in 1819, published in 1820. This poem is written in Spenserian stanzas and is considered one of Keats's finest works. It tells the story of a young lady named Madeline and her romantic endeavor on the eve of St. Agnes.