GRAY, THOMAS / JONES, OWEN (ILLUSTRATOR) . - Gray's Elegy. Illuminated By Owen Jones .

London: Longman And Co. / New York: Wiley And Putnam, 1846 . 0. First edition. A very good original relievo binding. 10.0" x 7.0" x 0.75". Polished and embossed full leather binding, edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine top & tail carefully repaired preseving the original spine. All page edges gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Yellow endpapers. No ownership marks or inscriptions. Inner hinges carefully strengthened at some time in the past with brown cloth. Clean title-page. All 18 leaves present and carefully bound-in. Bright colours throughout. Remains of binder's label to recto of the rear board: "Bound By Remanent & Edmonds - London". A lovely book. ** Thomas Gray's 1751 Elegy became a staple of English poetry. This 1846 publication of that poem has illuminations by famed book artist Owen Jones. The first secular book illuminated in its entirety by O. Jones it includes 35 chromolithographed pages in color and gold with the text in gothic script, initial letters & borders of leaves & vines blocked in gilt, red & blue. The first also to be issued in this special type of binding which has been chiefly used for illuminated books. Bound in deeply embossed brown leather made to imitate carved wood, executed by Remnant and Edmonds. The front has wide border of holly leaves. The interest of the book lies in its production in chromolithography as an illuminated manuscript page by page by Owen Jones. It is also the first recorded book with a joint American and English imprint. This book and its like-productions of the period are described and illustrated by Ruari McLean in his "Victorian Book Design".

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