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Good. No Jacket. Full Leather with 5 raised banded spine on marbled boards covers are rubbed and detached and spine has top third missing Previous owner's name & date in ink on front free endpaper / book has a little foxing to end papers / book ow solid & bright 410 pages. QUARTO. No dustwrapper as issued.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Very Good. 4to. Finely bound in tan leather with gilt decs, marbled endpapers, AEG. Some scuffs, scratches and darkening to boards and spine, prelims foxed, some creasing to ffep, Eton presentation inscription to front endpaper dated 1875. Two sepia images pasted in. Occasional foxing, heaviest to prelims, otherwise contents clean and solid.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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None. Good. A collection of the poems of Thomas Gray, including his best-known work, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard. With an Etonian prize dedication page to the front. Illustrated throughout with four tinted plates. Bound by Riviere (binder's ink stamp to verso of front free-endpaper). In a morocco binding with gilt detailing. Externally, sound, though with some marks, rubbing, and wear to the extremities. Front hinge strained. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, and quite clean, though with some handling marks and some foxing to the plates. Good.
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Not Stated. Very Good. A large paper, illustrated edition, of Thomas Gray's poems and letters. In a lovely full calf binding. With a comprehensive biography of Gray. With a frontispiece and three mounted plates of photographs. The three plates are of landscape and architectural views. Collated, complete. Being a collection of Gray's Odes, Songs, Extracts and letters. With his 'Ode on the Spring', 'Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, 'The Progress of Poetry' and his famed 'Elegy written in a Country Church-yard'. With an Eton prize presentation leaf to the front of the work, dated 1884. Thomas Gray as a famed classical scholar and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. His best known work is 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' which was first published in 1751. Gray only had 13 poems published during his lifetime due to his self-critical nature. The letters to this work are between Gray and Walpole, Gray's mother, Mr West, Mr Wharton and his father. A lovely work, with several decorative head pieces and ornamental letters. In a full calf binding. Imperceptibly rebacked with the original spine laid down and boards preserved. Externally, very smart with several marks to boards. Rubbing to the head of rear board. Shelfwear to the spine has resulted in the gilt fading. Gift inscriptions to the recto of front endpaper, Francisco Harold Hoskier. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with scattered spots to the first and last few pages in addition to the plates. Crease to the plate at page 11. Otherwise, just the odd spots. Very Good.
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None. Good. A poetical anthology from Thomas Gray, nicely bound in a full calf Riviere signed binding. Featuring the original four tipped-in photographs. Including a frontispiece portrait of the author and three architectural views. Adorned with numerous woodcut initials and ornaments. Rebound in a full signed Riviere binding. Externally, sound, although with some rubbing and light sunning to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound, bright and generally clean throughout the text, although with some marginal foxing and to the first and last leaves. Armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Good.
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None. Very Good Indeed. A leatherbound copy of The Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray. With a bookplate to the pastedown, presented to Edmund Warre by Lancelot W. Dent on his leaving Eton in 1884. Includes Gray's most famous poem, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard', as well as 'The Death of Hoel' and numerous letters. Complete with black and white photogravures throughout. In a full calf binding with gilt lettering and design to the spine and boards. All edges gilt. Externally, smart with rubbing to the joints and edges. With light discolouration and scratching to the boards. Spine slightly faded. With a bookplate to the pastedown. Spotting to the endpapers. Internally, very smart. With spotting between pages 71 and 73. Otherwise pages are bright, clean and firmly bound. Very Good Indeed.
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Unamed. Fine. An attractive copy of Thomas Gray's letters and poems, in a delightful full calf Rivere binding. This particular copy is in excellent condition. Attractively bound in a full calf binding, with the binder stamp of Rivere to the reverse of the front endpaper. This volume is in excellent condition with gilt detailing to the spine and to the extremities of the boards. With ink inscription to the front blank in Latin, that reads 'Hunc Liburm Herberto Mainwarung Bats Ab Stima discedenti to Jacobus J. Hornby Etonae XIII. Kal Januaries. ' Illustrated with a tipped-in plate to the frontispiece. Thomas Gray was a poet, letter writer and Cambridge Professor. An incredibly literary talent, Gray was offered the position of Poet Laureate in 1757 despite having only published 13 poems. Gray would decline the position. Gray's seminal work is the poem ' Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is one that was met with immediate success and leading to many of the poems phrasing to enter the English Lexicon including 'far for the madding crowd', and 'kindred spirit' to name but a few. A lovely example of this collection of letters and poems by this notable writer. In a full calf binding. Externally smart, with minor shelfwear. Binders stamp to the reverse of the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the odd spot to the front and rear blanks. Fine.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.