Isabella, or The Pot of Basil. by John Keats - 1910

George W. Jacobs, 1860-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. . Spine,cover and edges shows wear,tanning and staining. Former owner's name on front page and minor staining. Few pages shows minor staining. Pages shows minor tanning.

Philadelphia, PA: George W. Jacobs. 1860. Paperback. Fair. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. . UNIONS GLASS M-This small paperback is in FAIR condition. edge worn, chipped, date is approximate. Lovely plates. gray spine w/dark gray lettering. .

Edinburgh and London: T N Foulis. Undated c1915 T N Foulis first thus softback with card covers and tipped-in colour illustration to front (Envelope Books, no 3 in the series, "decorative wrapper"); good+ sound condition, lightly aged but nice and clean, no inscriptions; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition Thus.. 1915.

Edinburgh/London: T.N. Foulis, . Slim 8vo., pp.39, grey cloth, gilt, with inlaid colour plate to front board, tipped-in colour plates by Jessie M. King, mounted on grey paper - frontispiece, pictorial title, Contents page, and three further colour plates, small b/w headpiece; neat ink ownership gift inscription, dated 1908, to front free endpaper, small (later) ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, toning to free endpapers and prelim blank, rubbing to extremities, slight marking to rear board, a very good, internally fresh copy.

London: Kegan Paul,Trench,Trubner and Co . This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in publisher's green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No Dust-Jacket.This copy has one neat previous owner's name and date to the blank front endpaper.Some wear to cloth evident at head of spine.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.No leaning to spine.illustrated Tite page is in red and black and with the text printed on handmade paper with deckle edges paper.Top edge of the the book is in gilt [TEG) with foxing noted to the endpapers and a little less is present to the pre-lims.Each page of the text has a floral border done by Macdougal.A decent copy then for the collector,4to unpaginated First Edition Thus [1898] . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 1898.

Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner, And Co. Ltd, 1898. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Isabella, or the Pot of Basil ... Illustrated and Decorated by W.B. Macdonald. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1898, first thus, [56] pages, quarto, illustrated throughout, original cloth gilt, better than Very Good, very slightly bumped and nicked to corners.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1898. Book has brown boards with gilt lettering and design to spine, and gilt design on front board. Rubbing and bumping to corners and spine ends, but commensurate with age. Some paling to rear board. Pages uncut. Please contact for images.. First Thus.. Hard Back. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by W. B. MacDougall.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1898. Quarto. 63 pages beautifully Illustrated and decorated by W.B. Macdougall. The narrative poem of Keats drawn from the ideas of Boccaccio that is beautifully printed for Lippincott by Turnbull & Spears of Edinburgh, bookplate of Robert Frank Skutch, whose firm was a well-known dealer in antiquities and art. Bound in a green cloth decorated in gilt with an art nouveau design, spine gilt, small chip to head, some fraying to foot. Very nice.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. MacDougall, W. B. (William Brown). Small quarto. (55)pp. Eight woodcut illustrations and each page with black floral borders. A fine rendering of John Keats's poem adapted from Boccacio's Decameron. In it, a young woman engaged to marry a nobleman falls in love with a commoner. When her brothers discover their relationship, they murder the commoner. Isabella learns of their crime in a dream, and, distraught, exhumes the body and buries the head in the titular pot of basil, over which she perpetually weeps. This version is sumptuously illustrated with black borders and romantic imagery of Isabella, her lover, her brothers, and their lush countryside. The effect is pleasingly nostalgic, matching the sympathy of Keats's poem. Bound in green cloth over boards with rich gilt tooling to spine and upper cover. Minor general wear to exterior, including three red blotches to lower cover. Overall, a near fine copy with a clean interior.