BIB_ID
104918
Accession number
MA 208
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
[1818].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (186 leaves) ; 25.7 cm
Notes
Each book is foliated in a contemporary hand.
Half title to Book I and the last leaf of Book II in the hand of John Hamilton Reynolds. With additional revisions, suggestions, and other markings by the publisher John Taylor, and with additional markings by the printer. Also with notes by Richard Woodhouse, who collated the manuscript against the printed text.
The text of Endymion was composed from April to November, 1817, and the preliminary drafts are no longer extant. This fair copy was transcribed from early January to mid-March, 1818.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis and "1814" (Books I and II), and fleur-de-lis and "1816" (the final leaf of Book II to the end of the manuscript).
Woodhouse notes that Keats's revisions to the manuscript were largely made after the text was already with the printer.--Cf. Garrod, xxxii.
Half title to Book I and the last leaf of Book II in the hand of John Hamilton Reynolds. With additional revisions, suggestions, and other markings by the publisher John Taylor, and with additional markings by the printer. Also with notes by Richard Woodhouse, who collated the manuscript against the printed text.
The text of Endymion was composed from April to November, 1817, and the preliminary drafts are no longer extant. This fair copy was transcribed from early January to mid-March, 1818.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis and "1814" (Books I and II), and fleur-de-lis and "1816" (the final leaf of Book II to the end of the manuscript).
Woodhouse notes that Keats's revisions to the manuscript were largely made after the text was already with the printer.--Cf. Garrod, xxxii.
Provenance
John Taylor; by descent to his relatives, and sold at Sotheby's (8-10 March 1897, lot 1365) as "the property of a relative of John Taylor" (probably a niece by marriage, Mrs. George Taylor of Bakewell, Derbyshire); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1897.
Summary
A fair copy of the poem as prepared for publication, with cancellations and revisions by the author throughout. Written on the rectos (with some notes and revisions on the versos) of 186 leaves.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (28.7 cm)
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