[COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor; SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe; KEATS, John]. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume. Published by A. and W. Galignani, Paris, 1829.
First edition, first issue [with date to title page]. In three parts. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Small quarto (220 x 135 x 35 mm.), pp [6], xi, [1], 225, [1]; xi, [1], 275, [1]; vii, [1], 75, [1]. English text printed in double columns with each poet separately paginated with sectional title and contents pages. Binding of stunning contemporary dark green full-calf, spine gilt, boards blind decorated with gilt frames, gilt inner dentelles, marbled page edges and endpapers, initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present, architectural frontispiece incorporating portraits, title-page vignette. Printed by Jules Didot Senior. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Sir Tho. E. M. Tuiton to front pastedown. Condition: Binding tight and secure with some light wear to spine ends and lower front joint, minor abrasions to boards and rubbing to points; contents beautifully preserved being fresh and clean throughout. Scarce thus.
Notes: FIRST EDITION of this collection of works by these three Romantic poets. Comprises the first collected edition of Shelley, the first collected edition of Keats, and only the second collected edition of Coleridge, with many poems published for the first time. With frontispiece portrait of the three poets. This edition was published in Paris because the poets lacked international copyright protection and no royalties needed to be paid. However, Galignani in fact worked closely with friends and relatives of the poets to create these three exhaustive collections. The frontispiece portrait is the first printed portrait of Shelley. MacGillivray B1. Peck ii, 440. A scarce and desirable copy in a beautiful and very appropriate period binding.
