GRAY, Thomas [1716 -1771].:. POEMS AND LETTERS. London: Printed at The Chiswick Press, 1867.

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Description: A very sound re-backed copy in the Original Quarto signed " Riveire" full calf binding for Eton College with presentation leaf to Arturo Phillips Roberts ab stima discedenti Jacobus J.Hornby and later signature of Thomas Gray [?] Severus Avenue Acomb York." 4to pp.xvi 415 Chiswick Press colophon. Four mounted albumen photographs including a view of Eton and an early portrait of the author as frontispiece these 4 inserted plates are foxed as usual but otherwise very clean. Included is Gray's masterpiece "Elegy written in a Country-Churchyard" and 45 letters.

Seller: John L. Capes (Books) Established 1969, STAITHES, United Kingdom