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Gray Thomas

The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray with some Account of his Life and Writings. The Whole carefully revised; and illustrated by Notes, original and selected. [Edited by S. Jones]. BRIGHT COPY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY ROAN

Printed for J. Scatcherd, No. 12 Ave-Maria Lane, 1799

184.00 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1799
Author
Gray Thomas
Publishers
Printed for J. Scatcherd, No. 12 Ave-Maria Lane
Keyword
literature, thomas gray, gray's elegy, thomas gray, literature, the, poetical, works, thomas, gray, some, account, his, life, writings
Languages
English

Description

8vo., First Edition thus, with an engraved portrait frontispiece (mildly spotted and with light offsetting to title facing) and 4 engraved plates (spotted at blank margins); attractively bound in nineteenth century red full straight-grained roan, sides with gilt frame border, back with five flat gilt bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, gilt edges, gilt dentelles, laid marbled endpapers, covers lightly age-marked, backstrip a little faded (but all gilt just legible), boards and joints lightly rubbed else a very good, crisp, copy. With 2pp publisher's advertisement at end. The frontispiece is engraved by Collyer after Burney. The Elegy includes, among the notes, some stanzas originally designed as part of the poem but omitted from the published version. Among the six poems addressed to, or written in memory of, Gray are four which appear here fore the first time. SCARCE. NCBEL II, p.577.
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