Author: Thomas Gray
Title: Poems by Thomas Gray
Description: Eton, Eton College Press, 1894. Leather. The collected poems of Thomas Gray, in an elegant full calf Eton College binding signed Spottiswoode & Co. featuring decorations throughout. The collected poems of Thomas Gray, English poet known for his 1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. An Eton Colle edition bound in a full calf prize binding signed Spottiswoode & Co. awarded to Edward Scawen Wyndham, son of Henry Wyndham, second Baron of Leconfield, in 1901. Complete with half title. Featuring a frontispiece portrait of the author as well as decorative initials, head and tail pieces, and other full page plates of engravings of charming landscapes. Containing Gray's original poems as well as translations into English and Latin verse of the works of Petrarca, from the Anthologia Græca, and others. In a full calf Eton College prize binding, with five raised bands and gilt tooling to the spine, Eton College lion crest to the front and rear boards, gilt to the edges. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, minor rubbing to the spine and extremities of the boards. School Prize inscription to the Eton prize bookplate bound in with the volume, dated 1901. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean, only slight frontispiece offsetting to the title page. Illustrated with a frontispiece, decorative initials, head and tail pieces, and other full page plates of engravings throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .
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Title: Poems by Thomas Gray
Description: Eton, Eton College Press, 1894. Leather. The collected poems of Thomas Gray, in an elegant full calf Eton College binding signed Spottiswoode & Co. featuring decorations throughout. The collected poems of Thomas Gray, English poet known for his 1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. An Eton Colle edition bound in a full calf prize binding signed Spottiswoode & Co. awarded to Edward Scawen Wyndham, son of Henry Wyndham, second Baron of Leconfield, in 1901. Complete with half title. Featuring a frontispiece portrait of the author as well as decorative initials, head and tail pieces, and other full page plates of engravings of charming landscapes. Containing Gray's original poems as well as translations into English and Latin verse of the works of Petrarca, from the Anthologia Græca, and others. In a full calf Eton College prize binding, with five raised bands and gilt tooling to the spine, Eton College lion crest to the front and rear boards, gilt to the edges. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, minor rubbing to the spine and extremities of the boards. School Prize inscription to the Eton prize bookplate bound in with the volume, dated 1901. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean, only slight frontispiece offsetting to the title page. Illustrated with a frontispiece, decorative initials, head and tail pieces, and other full page plates of engravings throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: eton college lion crest thomas gray poetry lion crest None
Price: GBP 130.00 = appr. US$ 185.64 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 807A7
- Book number: 807A7
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