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Thomas Gray. Poems. Eton College Press, Eton, 1894.
Price: US$64.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Handsomely produced at Eton College as prize volume for pupils. This copy presented to Johanni (John) Wormald in 1900. Portrait frontispiece offsetting to title page, and three further engravings. Occasional foxing, but in general all is clean and bright. Attractive marbled endpapers. Handsome full leather binding with gilt decoration and titling. 4to. 164pp
Seller: Dodman Books, Morston, United Kingdom
GRAY (Thomas).. Poems.. Printed at the Eton College Press, 1894., 1894.
Price: US$70.55 + shipping
Description: Tall 8vo, engr. frontis., 3 other engr. plates, pp. xiv, 164, [2], full polished tan calf, gilt rule borders, turnovers gilt, spine gilt with dark green leather title label, a.e.g. by Ingalton Drake, an attractive copy. Printed as prizes for Eton College with this copy presented to Ian Alastair Ewing. [Extra postage required]
Seller: Spike Hughes Rare Books ABA, Innerleithen, United Kingdom
Gray, Thomas. POEMS BY THOMAS GRAY. Eton College Press, 1894.
Price: US$76.90 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A fine full tan calf with gilt ruling copy of this title with 5 raised band and gilt shield to front board. 165pp Frontispiece and 3 plates. Blue and gilt marbling ep's and gae. Printed presentation leaf to Petro Haig Thomas. A fine copy with just usual discolouring tansfer from unfaced frontispiece and a few early foxing marks otherwise clear elsewhere. A heavy volume and post wilkl be greater than quoted by abe. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 0.0 0.0
Seller: Chris Barmby MBE. C & A. J. Barmby, Kent, United Kingdom
Gray, Thomas. Poems. Eton College Press, 1894.
Price: US$76.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Full calf binding by R Ingalton Drake, G+. xiv+164pp, marbled endpapers, b/w frontis, 3 engraved plates, calf rubbed & worn, scuff to spine, still a handsome book. Printed at the school to be given away as prizes. This one was given to Alan Douglas Pilkington, in 1898. Pilkington's bookplate on pastedown. 1200 grams.
Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom
Gary, Thomas. POEMS OF THOMAS GRAY. Eton College Press, Eton, 1894.
Price: US$87.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 164 pages; Charles Radclyffe etchings including frontispiece plate by Wilson Pinx. Original fine calf leather binding, five raised bands with gilt decoration and title label to the spine, gilt detail to the boards with eleborate dentelles, complete with embossed heraldic device of Eton College to both boards.; minimal rubbing and wear. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, fine blue marbled endpapers, private book plate belonging to David Guy Charles Allan, all edges gilt, just a little foxing/spotting to a few pages, no inscriptions. A very good copy in a near fine binding. Size: 4to
Seller: LOE BOOKS, Launceston, United Kingdom
Gray, Thomas.. The Poems of Thomas Gray.. Eton, The Eton College Press., 1894.
Price: US$95.61 + shipping
Description: 27 x 18 cm, xiv, 164 pages.Frontispiece showing Thomas Gray. Three full page plates and various decorations in text. Half leather on marbled paper. New binding; not contemporary. Binding in excellent, as new, condition. Text block very good condition. Some foxing and minor age darkening. Unguarded frontispiece transferred 'shadow' to title page. Small water stain on top fore corner on the first pages. Text block otherwise bright and clean. Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. Gray was an extremely self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being extremely popular. He was even offered the position of Poet Laureate in 1757, though he declined the offer. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.
Seller: West Coast Rare Books, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Gray, Thomas. Poems of Thomas Gray. Eton College Press, 1894.
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Type: Book pp XLV, 164. Fully bound in tan calf by Ingleton Drake. 5 raised bands to spine, green spine title label with extensive gilt decoration to spine, boards and outer and inner edges. Blue marbled end papers, AEG, Armorial plate to FPD, school prize details to FEP, frontispiece and illustrations. A fine book that shows light wear and would make an excellent gift
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
GRAY, Thomas. Poems By Thomas Gray. Eton College Press, London, 1894.
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Published: 1894. DESCRIPTION: Full calf prize binding for Eton College, with five raised bands and gilt tooling to the spine, Eton College crest to the front and rear boards, gilt to the edges. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners and edges with heavier wear to spine and spine ends. Rubbed leather boards with some chips and small gouge marks. Tightly bound with clean intact endpapers and strong hinges. Stain mark to lower edges to front and rear pages. Toned pages adjacent to plates. Plates have small stain mark to lower gutter margins. Occasional spot or mark to other pages. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 164. Size: 28.5cm by 18.5cm. AUTHOR: English poet known for his 1751, known for the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Gray. Thomas. Poems By Thomas Gray. Eton College Press, Eton, 1894.
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Exceptionally smart spine, with gold blocking and label. The leather of the covers has some marks, and the Eton crest in gold is a little dulled. Eton presentation inscribed from 'Edmundus Warne' to M.E. Balston, later a paper maker and co-author of Birds of Kent. Pages very clean apart from a minor scattering of foxing sporadically throughout. Even with the slight faults, a handsome volume. Size: 4to
Seller: Martin Bott Bookdealers Ltd, Felixstowe, United Kingdom
Thomas Gray. Rare Thomas Gray / POEMS 1894. Generic, 1894.
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontispiece portrait; 3 plates. 4to, gilt-decorated. Eton college prize, calf binding, spine gilt-in 6 compartments, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Cover shows age related wear and scratches. Name owner written in dedication in front of the book. Pages are crisp and clean with no writing. Binding is tight. See our photo.
Seller: Dungeness Books, ABAA, Sequim, WA, U.S.A.
Gray, Thomas.. Poems.. Eton, Eton College Press., 1894.
Price: US$113.19 + shipping
Description: Gr.-8vo. XIV, 164, (2)pp. With printed presentation leaf, frontispiece, and 3 engr. plates. Contemp. full polished calf, richly gilt, gilt-stamped armorial plate to both covers, a.e.g. (signed: Spottiswoode Binders). Fine copy.
Seller: Manfred Nosbuesch, Kuchenheim, Germany
GRAY, Thomas. POEMS. Printed at the Eton College Press, Eton, England, 1894.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. xiv, 164 pp. Frontispiece portrait and three engraved plates mounted on thick stock. Prize-binding leaf completed in ink for Herbert Ivo de Keaton Bond (1879-1953) and signed by Eton's headmaster, Edmond Warre in 1897. Publisher's tan calf, boards framed with an ornamental rule enclosing a gilt-stamped school shield, Leather label and gilt rules and ornaments between raised bands on spine, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, by R. Ingleton Drake. Foxing to endpapers and frontispiece, offset from frontispiece to title page, but a very good copy in an attractive binding.
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Gray Thomas. Poems By Thomas Gray. Eton College Press, 1894.
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full Tan Calf Covers With Gilt Ruled Border Lines And Gilt Crest To Front And Rear.All Page Edges Gilt. There Is Some Rubbing To Rear Cover And Some Light Spotting To Front Cover. Spine Has 5 Raised Bands With Title Gilt On Green To Second Compartment And Decoration To Others. Spine Clean With No Shelf Wear And Gilt Very Bright. Blue And Gilt Marbled Eps. Bright Gilt Internal Cover Edges.Printed Presentation Plate.Paste On Portrait Of Thomas Gray Was Not Tissue Guarded And Has Transfered Shadow To Title.Internally Very Clean And Bright As Are The Full Page Illustrations.Head And Tail Pieces To Each Poem. A Really Lovely Book.
Seller: Valuable Volumes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Thomas Gray. Poems of Thomas Gray. The Eton College Press, Eton, 1894.
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Description: A collection of poems by Thomas Gray, in an elegant full calf Eton College prizewinner binding. In attractive full calf binding, with intricate gilt detailing and gilt to the fore edge. With a binders signature of R. Ingalton Drake to the reverse of the front endpaper. This is a prizewinner binding awarded by the headmaster of Eton College, Edmond Warre, to Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy in 1896. The collected poems of Thomas Gray, English poet known for his 1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. This work is comprised of many poems, including Ode on the Spring, The Triumphs of Owen and the Hymn to Adversity. Containing Gray's original poems as well as translations into English and Latin verse of the works of Petrarca, from the Anthologia Græca, and others. Featuring a frontispiece portrait of the author as well as decorative initials, head and tail pieces, and other full page plates of engravings of charming landscapes. In full calf prize winner binding. Externally, very smart, with light bumping and rubbing to the extremities. The odd mark to boards. Slight wear to the head of the spine and the rear of the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with the odd handling mark. Slightly age toned to some pages. Ink inscription to prize winner dedication. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Thomas Gray. Poems by Thomas Gray. Eton College Press, Eton, 1894.
Price: US$166.75 + shipping
Description: The collected poems of Thomas Gray, in an elegant full calf Eton College binding signed Spottiswoode & Co., featuring decorations throughout. The collected poems of Thomas Gray, English poet known for his 1751Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. An Eton Colle edition bound in a full calf prize binding signed Spottiswoode & Co., awarded to Edward Scawen Wyndham, son of Henry Wyndham, second Baron of Leconfield, in 1901. Complete with half title. Featuring a frontispiece portrait of the author as well as decorative initials, head and tail pieces, and other full page plates of engravings of charming landscapes.Containing Gray's original poems as well as translations into English and Latin verse of the works of Petrarca, from the Anthologia Græca, and others. In a full calf Eton College prize binding, with five raised bands and gilt tooling to the spine, Eton College lion crest to the front and rear boards, gilt to the edges. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, minor rubbing to the spine and extremities of the boards. School Prize inscription to the Eton prize bookplate bound in with the volume, dated 1901. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean, only slight frontispiece offsetting to the title page. Illustrated with a frontispiece, decorative initials, head and tail pieces, and other full page plates of engravings throughout. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Thomas Gray. Poems. Eton College Press, Eton, 1894.
Price: US$179.57 + shipping
Description: A rhythmical anthology of selected works from prolific writer Thomas Gray. Featuring Illustrated capitals and head and tail pieces. A frontispiece of Gray, and plates to Ode on the Spring, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, and Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard. Includes a short biography by the Hon. Horace Walpole. In tan calf binding with gilt lion crest to both boards. Externally, smart with slight marks to front board. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages, although there is light offsetting, wich heavier from frontispiece. Eton bookplate with copperplate ink inscription to endpaper. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Thomas Gray. Poems by Thomas Gray. Eton College Press, Eton, 1894.
Price: US$191.12 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The collected poems of Thomas Gray from the prestigious Eton College, in handsome calf binding signed Spottiswoode & Co. The collected poems of Thomas Gray, English poet known for his 1751Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. An Eton College edition bound in a full calf prize binding signed Spottiswoode & Co., awarded to Gulielmo Adolpho Partridge, dated 1909. Complete with half title. Featuring a frontispiece portrait of the author as well as decorative initials, head and tail pieces, and other full page plates of engravings of charming landscapes.Containing Gray's original poems as well as translations into English and Latin verse of the works of Petrarca, from the Anthologia Græca, and others. In a full calf Eton College prize binding, with five raised bands and gilt tooling to the spine, Eton College lion crest to the front and rear boards, gilt to the edges, marbled endpapers. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean, only minor spotting affecting leaves of plates and frontispiece offsetting to title page. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
GRAY, Thomas. POEMS. London Printed at the Eton College Press, 1894.
Price: US$318.10 + shipping
Description: Finely bound in full calf by Ingalton Drake, with raised bands to spine with morocco title label, lettered in gilt. Gilt scrolls and floral motif to the sections. Gilt heraldic vignettes and ornamental borders to the boards. Gilt dentelles with marbled end papers. All edges gilt. Eton presentation page bound in and completed in manuscript by Eton Headmaster and noted rower, Edmond Warre, dated 1894. A near fine copy, some spotting to the covers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Gray with three further engraved plates. Includes Gray's "Elegy written in a Church Yard" and the poet's reverie of his schooldays at Eton in "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College".
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom