Author: R. W. Ketton-Cremer
Title: Thomas Gray: A Biography
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1955. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in the original dustwrapper of Thomas Gray's biography. The first 1955 edition of thomas Gray's biography by R. W. Ketton-Cremer.Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Although he only published thirteen poems in his lifetime, being extremely self-critical, he became very popular in the literary scene. He was offered the position of Poet Laureate in 1947, but declined. He was mostly known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. With priced-clipped dustwrapper.Illustrated. In the publisher's original burgundy cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. externally lovely, with minor shelfwear only. inscribed by previous owner to front free endpaper: "to Daddy, with much love from Richard and Peter on his 27th wedding anniversary," dated August 1955. Dustwrapper is very smart and price-clipped, with minor shelfwear only and minor handling mark to front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. With frontispiece and seven illustrations. Near Fine . Ill.: Unnamed. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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Title: Thomas Gray: A Biography
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1955. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in the original dustwrapper of Thomas Gray's biography. The first 1955 edition of thomas Gray's biography by R. W. Ketton-Cremer.Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Although he only published thirteen poems in his lifetime, being extremely self-critical, he became very popular in the literary scene. He was offered the position of Poet Laureate in 1947, but declined. He was mostly known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. With priced-clipped dustwrapper.Illustrated. In the publisher's original burgundy cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. externally lovely, with minor shelfwear only. inscribed by previous owner to front free endpaper: "to Daddy, with much love from Richard and Peter on his 27th wedding anniversary," dated August 1955. Dustwrapper is very smart and price-clipped, with minor shelfwear only and minor handling mark to front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. With frontispiece and seven illustrations. Near Fine . Ill.: Unnamed. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Keywords: biography thomas Gray First editions dustwrapper thomas Gray Unnamed
Price: GBP 38.00 = appr. US$ 54.26 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 755A50
- Book number: 755A50
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