The life and letters of John Keats. By Lord Houghton. A new edition. In one volume
by Milnes, J. (engr.) Severn, H. (engr.) Robinson, Keats
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8vo. pp. 363. Signatures: [A]4 B-Z8 AA4 BB2. Embossed stamp on front free endpaper: W.H. Smith & Son, London. Contains frontispiece portrait.
The first printing of the forged letters (here published as genuine) and the poetical fragment (as ‘of doubtful authenticity’) that Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton (1809-1885) had purchased at the Wilks sale in 1851. Milnes, who had a special interest in John Keats, was one of the most prominent victims of the notorious forger George de Gibler, ‘Major Byron.’ See J. A. Farrer, Literary forgeries. London and New York, 1907, pp. 189-190; T. G. Ehrsam, Major Byron. The incredible career of a literary forger. New York, 1951, pp. 100-101.
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