# 46668

GRAY, Thomas (1716 - 1771)

Poems and letters

$550.00 AUD

London : Chiswick Press, 1879. Quarto, full polished calf by Riviere and Sons, with their binder’s stamp, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and ornamented in gilt, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, light edge rubbing and a few small stamps, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, foxing to preliminaries, pp. xvi; 415, decorative initials, head and tail pieces, with four original photographs bound in.

A finely bound volume of the works of the notable eighteenth century Cambridge poet, best known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, first published in 1751.