Author: GRAY, THOMAS; W. W. LANGE (FOREWORD)
Title: Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
Description: New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1926. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Limited edition (this is one of only 250 copies). Quarter bound in publisher's brown cloth over marbled boards, fore and bottom edges deckle. This is a fine folio edition of Gray's Elegy as first presented with the Bentley frontispiece by Dodsley in 1753. The text and illustrations are taken from the exceedingly rare first edition now in the library of Yale University. Published in this limited edition of 250 copies for Christmas, 1926. There are a couple of small nicks and stains on the covers, the interior is unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. Wood engravings. Folio 13" - 23" tall. (14) pp. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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