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Verlag: Dublin, William Sleater., 1775
Anbieter: Antiquariat Cassel & Lampe Gbr - Metropolis Books Berlin, Berlin, D, Deutschland
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211 Seiten mit gestochenem Frontispiz und 4 gest. Vignetten, sowie einem Anhang (Titel und Seiten 192 - 211) : Elegia Inglese del signor Tommaso Gray, sopra un cimitero di campagna trasportata in versi latini e volgari. In Eblana 1776. Lederband der Zeit mit rotem Rückenschild und Rückenvergoldung. Rücken im Gelenk mit Einriss, Rückendeckel mit größerer Fehlstelle des Lederbezuges. First Dublin Edition. - Vorsatzblatt fehlt, durchgehende Feuchtigkeitsspur. - 4 engraved vignettes. Endpapers missing, trace of moisture throughout. Leather binding of the time with red spine label and spine gilt. Spine at joint with tear, back cover with larger lack of leather cover. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: J. Murray, London, 1972
ISBN 10: 0879556005ISBN 13: 9780879556006
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. New edition. 72pp. Measuring 9" x 11.5". Illustrations by William Blake. Introduction and commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Fine in a near fine age-toned dustwrapper with an internal tape repair on the spine with light foxing, near fine.
Verlag: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2016
ISBN 10: 1358711259ISBN 13: 9781358711251
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
Verlag: J Murray,, London,, 1786
Anbieter: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 'New Edition' 8vo. pp 178. Bound in full dark brown leather, decorated and lettered gilt at the spine with marbled endpapers. A later issue of John Murray's edition of the Poems. Contains among other poems his Elegy in a Country Church Yard. This includes his response to a charge of plagiarism from William Mason (1725-1797) for content in an earlier edition. The unattributed biographical account of Gray is by Gilbert Wakefield (1725-1797). To the poems are added Gray's last will and testament. There are 7 engraved plates (inc frontis) dated variously 1776-1783, 4 of which are new to this edition. From the library of Ray Strachey with her bookplate on the verso front endpaper. She was born Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe (1887 Ð 1940) was a British feminist politician, suffragette, artist and writer. Her father was Irish barrister Benjamin "Frank" Conn Costelloe, and her mother was art historian Mary Berenson. She was the elder of the two girls in her family. Her younger sister was the psychologist Karin Stephen,who married Adrian Stephen, Virginia Woolf's younger brother She married Oliver Strachey,the elder brother of the biographer Lytton Strachey of the Bloomsbury group. He worked as a cryptographer at Bletchley in WW2. Slight wear at hinges, otherwise near very good.
Verlag: J Murray,, London,, 1790
Anbieter: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 'New Edition' 8vo. pp xxix, 178. A later issue of John Murray's edition of the Poems. Contains among other poems his Elegy in a Country Church Yard. This includes his response to a charge of plagiarism from William Mason (1725-1797) for content in an earlier edition. The unattributed biographical account of Gray is by Gilbert Wakefield (1725-1797). To the poems are added Gray's last will and testament. There are 7 engraved plates (inc frontis) dated variously 1776-1783, 4 of which are new to this edition. Fairly recent half dark brown leather binding spine, lettered and ruled in gilt with 5 raised bands and marbled boards. Very good indeed.
Verlag: Dublin, William Sleater, 1775., 1775
Anbieter: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
12mo, pp. 185, [6], '180-211', [4], '[192]-211', [1 (index)]; Elegia Inglese with part-title dated 1776; with copper-engraved frontispiece (included in pagination), engraved vignette to title, 4 illustrations (of which 3 engraved and one woodcut) in text, and a pleasing variety of woodcut and typographic ornaments throughout; foxed and spotted in places, but a very good copy; in contemporary sheep, spine ruled in gilt with gilt red morocco lettering-piece, sewn two-up on 3 sunken cords (of which 2 laced in); a little rubbed and bumped, upper joint split but holding; contemporary ink ownership inscription 'John Thells' to title.An attractive Dublin edition of Gray's poems, joined by two parodies and a 'burlesque ode', and parallel translations of his Elegy written in a Country Churchyard into Italian and Latin. The publisher William Sleater first printed Gray's poems in 1768, with three variant issues; the present edition reuses the sheets of the most extensive and scarcest of the three (ESTC T59849, BL and Cornell only), with a new title, K6 reset, and the addition of 1I6 (Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude, noting that 'Mr. Gray left the following beautiful lyric fragment unfinished at his decease. The supplementary lines, distinguished by Italic character, have been since added by the Rev. Mr. Mason'). ESTC T59850. Language: English.
Verlag: Printed for John Murray, (No. 31.) Fleet Street, London, 1780
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USA
New Edition. New Edition. Title page in red and black in ESTC citation, but here printed only in black - The plates are variously dated: 'Fatal sisters', Nov. 20 1777; 'Descent of Odin', Aug. 15 1776; and 'Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke', Nov. 1783. 8vo. ESTC T124973 Mottled nineteenth century calf, a.e.g. Fine Title page in red and black in ESTC citation, but here printed only in black - The plates are variously dated: 'Fatal sisters', Nov. 20 1777; 'Descent of Odin', Aug. 15 1776; and 'Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke', Nov. 1783. 8vo.
Verlag: J. Dodsley,, London,, 1768
Anbieter: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First London Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 120. Bound in full calf, lettered gilt at the spine on a red leather label with five raised bands. First London edition - without the front endpaper or half title page. Contains 'Ode on a Distant Prospect on Eton College' and 'Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard'. Neat gift inscription on the title page, dated 1828. Slight wear at extremities, otherwise very good indeed.
Verlag: Printed for J. Murray 1776, London, 1776
Anbieter: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Full Tree Calf. Zustand: Very Good. New Edition. [ii], 146 pp. 2 copper engravings dated 1776. Modern sympathetic respine over original tree calf with rubbed gilt borders to boards; gilt lettering and ruling to spine with raised bands; black leather title label; marbled endpapers. Wear to corners and rubbing to boards. 3 ink inscriptions to one page of prelims. Largely clean internally. Small engraving to title. further two copper engraved plates. Possibly the first Murray edition. Contains Ode on the Spring, Ode for Music, The Bard and Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, as well as a short account of the life and writings of Gray. 18.5cms tall, 13cms wide. ESTC T125811. 4to.
Verlag: J. Dodsley, London, 1768
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Leather. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). A very early edition of the poems of Thomas Gray, a wonderful complete edition of his Romantic works. A new edition, published in the same year as the first edition.Half-title and contents leaf both present.Collated, complete.The collected poems and letters of Thomas Gray. Also including his various other works, including essays on architecture and art.Gray is best known for his poem 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', which is included in this volume. However he was an incredibly self-critical poet, and only published thirteen poems during his life.Gray was offered the position of Poet Laureate, but turned it down. He is considered to be pre-Romantic.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front free endpaper, inscribed 'His Britannic Majesty's Ship Tagus, Spithead, Nov 1813'. In a full calf inding. Externally, generally smart, with some light marks to the boards and spine, including a tidemark to the rear board. Minor bumping to the extremities. A small amount of loss to the head of the spine. Small crack to the front joint. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only the occasional spot. Very Good. book.
Verlag: J. Dodsley, London, 1768
Anbieter: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australien
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Octavo, with the rare half-title; contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf, in contemporary calf, preserved in a folding cloth case. First edition, second issue with the contents at page 121. This is the first London edition and includes the famous 'Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard': 'a new beauty, and a music of its own' (CHEL). The Elegy was completed in 1750 and sent in manuscript to Walpole, who circulated it freely, causing a distressed Gray to send it to Dodsley for publishing to protect himself. Despite Dodsley's best efforts to deprive the poem of syntactical sense (replace 'awake' with 'asleep' Gray poignantly advised his printer), he produced several editions including this important collection. This is the copy of the English politician and man of letters Augustine Birrell, who famously once said "Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one". There are a few marginal notes in ink by him. . Provenance: William Grant (ownership inscription dated 1811); Augustine Birrell (author and politician, with bookplate). Carefully respined, edges of the binding rubbed but an excellent copy.
Verlag: J. Murray, 1790
Anbieter: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, Südafrika
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. stapled format, 16 pages. shelf wear on wraps. foxing.contents remain clear and intact. fairly good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Verlag: A.Ward, York, 1775
Anbieter: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Kanada
modern calf with raised bands., Size : 4to, Volume : 1, Half-title, portrait, title, pp 416, errata, title, pp 3-71, additional notes, advertisement, notes pp 75-111.
Verlag: The Scolar Press, Yorkshire and London, 1973
ISBN 10: 0859670600ISBN 13: 9780859670609
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
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Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint. Quarto; pp 63; G/Fair; green spine with black text; first Scolar facsimile reprint; dust jacket has several chips to edges, as is; slightly soiled exterior; cloth shows lightly sunned exterior; strong boards; text block shows slightly toned exterior edges; previous owner's name to ffep; interior clean; 1324925. FP New Rockville Stock.
Verlag: Folio Society, 2013
Anbieter: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, Vereinigtes Königreich
2 volumes. Facsimile Reprint, folio 43 x 34cm. Colour ills. throughout, Brown half Nigerian goatskin leather backed colour ills. boards with gilt lettering to spine and matching gilt lettered label to upper board; Large 8vo. Commentary by Irene Taylor. Edited with a new foreword by Martin Butlin. Large 8vo. 25 x 16cm. Original grey cloth with gilt lettered spine and paper title label to upper board. Gold e.ps., together enclosed in matching brown buckram solander presentation box with gilt lettered leather label to spine. No. 41 of a Limited Edition of 1000 Numbered copies and 20 Lettered copies. US$699.
Verlag: J. Murray, London, 1778
Anbieter: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good + overall. Later printing. 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 did his best to believe in their authenticity and found himself in rather uncongenial alliance with Hume, whose skepticism was for once quenched by his patriotism. Gray's interest probably led him to his imitations from the Norse and Welsh. Only in later life did Gray actually express the love he felt for another man. (Summers, Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage).
Verlag: J Dodsley, London, 1768
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Leather. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). 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 Wicklow. From the antiquarian library of Christopher Rowe. Christopher Rowe was a schoolmaster in Norwich and then in Bristol. Throughout his career he inspired many to love literature, history and music. He was a specialist on 17th century printer and bookseller, Humphres Moseley and began his, unfortunately unfinished, PhD dissertation on him. This collection has many of Gray's popular poems such as 'Ode on the Spring', 'Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat' and 'The Progress of Poesy'. The final poem of this work is arguably Gray's best known work 'Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard. In full calf binding with gilt stamping to spine. Externally, generally smart with cracks to joints, heavier to the front joint. Loss to the head and tail of spine. Small loss to raised bands also. Front hinge is slightly strained but firm. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown and a library bookplate to recto of front endpaper. Another prior owner's bookplate to verso of front endpaper, Christopher Rowe. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned to edges with instances of light spots. Very Good. book.
Anbieter: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, USA
London: Trianon Press, 1971. 4to, xx, 71 pp, with 16 color plates and 116 illustrations. Very Good in original color illustrated card wrappers with slight wear and acetate dust-jacket. § First trade edition thus. Introductory handbook to the facsimile of Blake's watercolors for Gray's poems. Bentley, BB, 385.
Verlag: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241088438ISBN 13: 9781241088439
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: Printed for G. Kearsley, London, 1786
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Quarter Calf. Zustand: Very Good. First. xxvi + 207pp, finely rebound in brown quarter calf, boards covered in handmade paper, original title label onset on red morocco, a very nice binding, pleasing typography, very good condition, Printed for G. Kearsley, London, 1786. * there is no proof, but it has the look and feel of a provincial printing. General Wolfe supposedly said that he would rather have written a single stanza of Gray's than have taken Quebec .
Verlag: J Philip O'Hara / Triannon Press, Chicago & Paris, 1972
Anbieter: E. M. Maurice Books, ABAA, Torrington, CT, USA
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Cloth Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. William Blake (illustrator). First American Edition. Blue cloth, slight fading to extremities; color pictorial dust jacket with edge wear and sunned spine, price-clipped. Reproductions of Blake's illustrations of verses by Thomas Gray, 16 are reproduced in color. Lovely book. Size: 4to.
Verlag: Pallas Athene, 2010
ISBN 10: 1843680580ISBN 13: 9781843680581
Anbieter: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, USA
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paperback. Zustand: Very Good.
Verlag: J Dodley, London, 1789
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. R Bentley (illustrator). A collection of poems by Thomas Gray, ornately illustrated throughout, with beautiful engravings. With 'Odes by Mr Gray' and 'Explanation of the Prints' by Horace Walpole to the start of the work. With Elegy Written in a Churchyard, Odes, Hymn to Adversity, A Long Story, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College and more. This work was first published in 1753 and there were subsequent printings in 1765, 1766 and 1775 prior to this edition. The engravings to this work are all by Johann Sebastian Muller and Charles Grignion after drawings by Richard Bentley. In a full calf binding. Rebound with original backstrip and boards preserved. Externally, generally smart. Patches of rubbing to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Marks to the boards. Small amount of loss to the backstrip due to rubbing. Bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional light spots. Prior owner's notes to the margins of page 54. Small repair to the tail of the first leaf. Very Good Indeed. book.
Verlag: J. Dodsley, London, 1775
Anbieter: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Hard Cover. Zustand: Fair. Hardback, slim folio, original boards crudely held to text block with frayed thread, leacking spine. Engraved vignettle to title. 5 engraved plates only (of 6), and a few engraved illustrations. Sewing broken and contents loose. Cloth strip crudely adhered to spine of text block with cloth partially adhered to gutter margin of half-title and final leaf. Dust-soiling, a few marks and some fraying to untrimmed margins. Private ownership. (a13).
London, J. Dodsley, 1789. Folio. Contemp. full calf. Double-line borders on covers. Neathly rebacked to style. Spine richly gilt and with gilt lettering. Corners bumped. Light wear along edges. Inner gilt borders. Engraved portrait of Gray (by Müller). Engraved title-vignette. (4),(1-)35,(2) leaves a. pp. 39-55., 6 large engraved initials, 6 engraved plates (Müller) and 13 large engraved head-and tailpieces. Very light offsetting from plates. A few insignificant marginal brownspots. Printed on heavy paper.
Verlag: Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, London, 1753
Anbieter: studio bibliografico pera s.a.s., LUCCA, Italien
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Copertina rigida. Zustand: ottime. Prima edizione. Prima edizione. Testo inglese. Cm.37,3x27. Carte quattro non numerate, 36. Buona legatura in mz.pelle e mz.tela. Tassello con titoli e filetti in oro al dorso a sei nervature. Fogli di guardia marmorizzati. Con sei belle tavole fuori testo a piena pagina e 13 nel testo, incluso il frontespizio, opera di T.S. Müller e Charles Grignion dai disegni di Richard Bentley. Capilettera figurati. Buon esemplare su carta greve. Il volume contiene sei poemi di Gray: "Ode on the Spring", "Ode on Death of a favourite Cat", "Ode on the distant Prospect of Eton", "The Long Story" (qui pubblicata per la prima volta), "Hymn to Diversity", e infine la famosa "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard". Il fatto che la parola "designs" preceda "poems" al frontespizio dipende da una scelta dello stesso Gray. La "Explanation of the Prints", che precede le liriche, si deve Horace Walpole. Assai bella e celebrata edizione di liriche del poeta preromantico Thomas Gray (Londra, 26 dicembre 1716 ? Cambridge, 20 luglio 1771), riccamente illustrate dalle tavole dell'amico Richard Bentley (1708 circa ? 1782). > Harthan, "The History of the Illustrated Book", 154-155, "The most sophisticated example of English rococo book-illustration". Dongu, "Thomas Gray Ludens. Frammenti dal Grand Tour", 48, "Dodsley, con un occhio al mercato, ritenendo che i lettori sarebbero stati attirati dalla fama dell'autore della "Elegy", aveva predisposto un frontespizio nel quale avrebbe dovuto campeggiare un ritratto di Gray, e proposto una grafica vicinanza dei nomi del poeta e del disegnatore, di fatto co-autori del libro, essendo questo un connubio di immagini e versi. La corrispondenza nervosa con Walpole, ma anche con lo stesso Dodsley, dimostra come Gray fosse intenzionato a proteggere la sua figura pubblica concedendo molto poco di sé. Il divieto della stampa della sua immagine vale come un disconoscimento non dei versi, in parte già pubblicati, quanto dell'operazione editoriale. Con le stesse ragioni in mente, e perseguendo lo stesso scopo, egli pretese che il suo nome apparisse inserito nel titolo, e non come co-autore .". Rotschild, 1061. Lowndes, II, 931. 1300 gr.
Verlag: London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1765, 1765
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Fourth edition overall, expanded from the three editions of 1753 with further Odes, of this large, elaborately illustrated publication of the best-known works of the poet Gray, including the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. A presentation copy of H. A. J. Munro's translation of the Elegy into Latin (c. 1873) is tipped-in at the rear endpapers. "This volume appeared only after a great deal of persuasion on the part of Horace Walpole (1717-97); the reclusive Thomas Gray was reluctant to be seen to be promoting his own work and insisted that the book's title should stress Richard Bentley's role as designer. Walpole was already considering setting up his own press and this splendid publication must have encouraged him to do so just four years later" (British Museum, curatorial comment for their first edition copy). Bentley's "designs for Gray's poems were deemed by Hanns Hammelmann to be 'a turning-point in British decorative art'. Their complement of visual puns and pictorial allusions to other works of art gives the interplay of the sister arts an unexpectedly provocative coherence" (ODNB). ESTC T127826; Northup 185; Hazen 42. Tall quarto (372 x 264 mm). Nineteenth-century half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled sides and endpapers. With 6 full-page copperplate engravings including frontispiece, and 13 engraved vignettes including title vignette. Contemporary ownership signature to title page; a few pencilled notes; with clipping on the sale of a first edition of the Elegy on the front free endpaper, a facsimile of the original manuscript of the same on the rear pastedown, a further clipping on Wolfe's reading of the poem in the Battle of Quebec to the rear binder's blank, autograph letter regarding the Latin translation (see note) tipped-in. Rubbed, light browning, light staining at foot. A very good copy.
Verlag: J. Dodsley, London, 1775
Anbieter: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Six full-page engraved plates, engraved vignette on the title, 13 vignettes in the text, and six engraved initials by Muller and Grignon. 4to (in half sheets). [346 x 235 x 21 mm]. [3], 35 ff, [4], 39-55 pp. Bound in contemporary tree calf, the covers with a gilt roll border, rebacked in matching calf, the smooth spine divided into seven panels by gilt fillets and a wave pallet, lettered in the second on a red label, the others with a vase containing flowers, marbled endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (Corners repaired, edges of the boards worn, scrape mark on front). Without the half-title. A little light dust-soiling but a good copy. Bookplate partly removed and with the signature of T. Lockhart. The six poems are printed and foliated on the recto only. "Odes by Mr. Gray" and the "Explanation of the prints", by Horace Walpole, are printed on both the recto and verso. First published, in three issues, by Robert Dodsley in 1753. It was reprinted, with additions, by his brother James Dodsley in 1765, 1766, 1775 and 1789. The work is "by far the most sophisticated example of English rococo book-illustration" and "perhaps the finest English illustrated book of the century" (Harthan, The History of the Illustrated Book, pp.154-5). Some of the designs, including the famous frontispiece to "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard", have Gothic features, while "the others display an eclectic melange of currently fashionable decorative motifs, caryatid-draped frontispieces, rococo scrolls and strapwork, an occasional intrusion of chinoiserie, and nude or lightly-clad figures which simultaneously look back to Poussinesque prototypes and forward to Neo-Classicism". Richard Bentley (1708-1782), the son of the great Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, was a protege and friend of Horace Walpole, and a chief designer of Strawberry-Hill.
Verlag: R Dodsley, London, 1753
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Leather. Zustand: Very Good. R Bentley (illustrator). A scarce and handsome volume of illustrations to the work of Thomas Gray, in attractive leather binding. Curiously noted as 'designs', rather than poems, the title was written such in order to emphasise to readers that the poems were previously published by Gray, and not new works. Nonetheless, the handsome illustrations, of which there are six engraved plates as well as numerous vignettes and embellishments, make for a interesting and attractive collaborative volume. In quarter-calf binding with gilt detailing and paper-covered boards. Externally smart, there is some wear to the backstrip and extremities. Internally, the pages are firmly bound but are somewhat age-toned throughout. Very Good. book.
Verlag: J. Dodsley ; T. Cadell ; J. Todd, 1778
Anbieter: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, Südafrika
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 4 volume set complete. rebound beautifully in full morocco leather with gold gilt to the front and spine and marbled end papers. page edges are gold gilted. the books have no inscriptions but each book has the bookplate of Edward Huth of Wykehurst Place. Edward Huth died in 1935 and was the son of the more famous Henry who was renowned in his day as a Bibliophile. on his death in 1878 he had amassed a very extensive library. condition was paramount and the books had to be perfect. this set, although almost certainly purchased and bound by edward definitely is in that catagory. a very handsome set indeed. the binding is beautiful. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.