Item #467276 An elegy written in a country churchyard. Thomas Gray.

An elegy written in a country churchyard

1914, First Edition thus. London : Adam and Charles Black. Good copy in the original colour-illustrated cloth boards, now lightly scuffed and dust-dulled. Corners and joints somewhat rubbed; endbands torn and fraying. Contemporary ownership inscription (1923) to half-title. Some smudges and dust scattered to the margins; a sound and attractive text block overall, with colour plates mounted to the versos. A well-preserved example. Item #467276

Physical description; 75, [3] pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm. Notes; 8 colour illustrations by G.F. Nicholls, mounted on versos. Printed on rectos only, in brown and green. Text within illustrated borders signed "RJR". Illustrated endpapers signed "RJR". Subjects; Elegiac poetry. English poetry. 18th century. 20th century. Illustrated. Colour plates.

Price: €35.00

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