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London: Printed for J. Murray, 1790. A New Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a stated New Edition of the poetry of "Mr. Gray," Thomas Gray (1716-1771). Nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in light gray paper over boards, moderately soiled and worn, brown paper over spine, worn at spine head and foot, title penned to spine head. Likely a rebound edition insofar as original front and rear wraps appear to be missing, thus the entirety having been bound in. Collated thus: Advertisement to this Edition; a short biography, the Last Will and Testament of Mr. Gray, Tears of Genius, an Ode, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes," and plentiful additional poems. Two fine duotone engraved plates, quite fine. Moderate foxing throughout, but generally clean and bright. His Wikipedia entry notes that Thomas Gray "was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and fellow at Pembroke… Read More

Paris and London: Trianon Press/J. Philip O'Hara, Inc., 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. William Blake. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy with light edge rubbing to jacket and a designer bookplate on the free endpaper, in a Brodart jacket cover.

J Murray , 1778 . Hardback. . 16mo full calf with gilt decoration and black title/author label. With 3 full page illus. and title page vignette. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Fair hardback. Edgeworn, front board detached and back hinge tender. Small rectangle cut out of front free endpaper. Light foxing to prelims. Offsetting to pages opp. the plates.

London: J. Murray, 1778. Later printing. Hardcover. Good + overall. Sml 8vo, 158pp, b&w frontis, b&w illus. One half green calf with marbled boards; gilt title (Gray's Poems) at spine. Spine is toned; small scratch at calf at top front cover. Internally, bookplate inside front cover; inscription dated 1787 at ffep wiritten by an Amanda Lock who also contributes Four pages of beautiful copper plate handwriting at the back of the volume record the text of a few of Gray's odes, including Ode on the Pleasures of Vicissitude, which is noted here as "Ode - Unfinished"; the text of the ode stops four lines short of Gray's own. New edition, with three manuscript poems added at the end. First published in 1768. Gray (1716-71) English poet, "He excelled his contemporaries in meticulous workmanship and in ability to use new materials--medieval Welsh or Scandinavian--with dramatic imaginative power..." Baugh. "His enthusiasm had been roused by the fragments of Gaelic poetry published by Macpherson in 1760. He… Read More

London : Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall M DCC LXVIII. [1768] .. A New Edition." A very good full leather binding. 8vo. 7.0" x 5.0" x 0.5". [2pp.]/pp.119/[2pp.] , with a final contents leaf . Half-title (before the title-page) lacking. Page signatures: [A]�, B-H8, I4, K�. Brown calf carefully re-cased at sometime in the past. Board edges carefully strengthened. Matching brown calf spine with 5 raised bands gilt publication date: '1768' and tan leather title label: 'Gray's Poems". Plain endpapers, lightly soiled. Previous owner's details to front free-endpaper: "Hariette Chick, Christmas 1887." Printed title-page. Clean text throughout. Just the odd small blemish. VG. Referenced by: ESTC T136298 / Rothschild 1071 . Contents include: Ode on the Spring, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Ode on a Distant prospect of Eton College, Hymn to Adversity, The Progress of Poesy, The Bard, The Fatal Sisters, The Descent of Odin, The Triumphs of Owen, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

London: J Dodsley, 1768. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 5". None. A collected edition of Thomas Gray's poetry. This is the 'New Edition' as stated to title page, though published the same year as the first. With the scarce half title and contents leaf. With an ex-libris bookplate of Franz Pollack Von Parnau of Vienna, Austria. With the bookplate of John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort to the front pastedown. The armorial bookplate has the Carysfort/Proby shield with the heraldic crown of an Earl at the top. The motto 'Quis Separabit' and the Date 1783 is to the outer of the shield. This is the motto for the order of St Patrick, which is also illustrated to the bookplate. Proby was awarded with the Order of St Patrick in 1784. The Order of St Patrick is an order of chivalry first issued in 1783 by George III. John Proby was a British judge, diplomat and Whig politican. He was the second Baron Carysfort, succeeding his father, before becoming Earl of Carysfort. He resided at Glenart Castle, County… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed and Sold by Gavin Alston. 1779. 16mo, 102 x 57 mms., pp. [ix] 10 - 108, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red leather label; joints and corners rubbed, but a very good copy, inscribed on the half-title, "Dr. L. Meyers/ From his Friend/ A Smith." ESCT T478526 locates only the copy in the BL.