80 printed pages + 32 pages publisher's adverts at the end. Printed by Morrison & Gibb Ltd. Edinburgh. Nimmo's Miniature Series (Secular), 8 - Welsh incorrectly numbers this title '5' and the only record cited is from the 1910 publisher's catalogue. Goulden & Wind, Ashford bookseller's label on front paste-down endpaper. Rounded corners. All edges gilt. Original decorative embossed green and gilt floral endpapers. No inscriptions. 60 x 90 mm. Original tan suede/reverse calf yapp style binding; spine with gilt titling. Several minuscule cream spots on the back cover. Welsh, 4133. WorldCat locates no copies worldwide.
The series primarily featured works of classic literature and poetry by authors such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Burns, and Christina Rossetti. Such books were popular as gifts, as evidenced by numerous surviving copies containing gift inscriptions with dates from the 1910s to the 1940s. Keats wrote 64 sonnets in total, so this book presents a curated selection of the best 38 sonnets rather than a complete collection. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death.