GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. ~ Endymion. A Poetic Romance by John Keats.
58 wood-engravings by John Buckland-Wright. One of 400 ordinary copies (this no. 460), there were also 100 special copies. Tall 4to., original quarter white vellum with very attractive variant red buckram boards (usually brown), spine lettered in gilt, image of Cynthia amongst the stars and planets by Buckland Wright in gilt on upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut. A good copy, with browning to p.85-6, 91-95, and 131-2 as is usual with this book.
Endymion in a quest for ideal beauty, explores woods and glades, the underworld, the depths of the sea and then the skies where he finds the ultimate object of ideal beauty in Cynthia, goddess of the moon. Buckland Wright upholds the romance and “maintained ectasy” of Keats’s great poem in his seemingly constant stream of passionate wood-engravings.