GRAY, THOMAS

Poems by Thomas Gray [Medici]

London: The Medici Society [privately printed for Eton College], 1920. Reprint. Cream vellum hardback cover. 260mm x 200mm (10" x 8"). 87pp. Privately printed for Eton College in the Riccardi Press Fount of the Medici Society. Includes 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'.. G+: in Good plus condition without dust jacket as issued. Boards darkened and marked with some warping. Pages untrimmed. Eton presentation page dated 1925 bound at front .

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Book number: j1670c

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry

GRAY, THOMAS

Poems. 1768. Facsimile Edition

Menston: Scolar Press Ltd, 1973. Facsimile of the 1768 Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 310mm x 230mm (12" x 9"). 64pp.. VG: in very good condition with lightly rubbed and edge chipped dust jacket .

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Book number: sc-148

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry Scolar Press

GRAY (Thomas):

The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are added Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason.

York: Printed by A. Ward; and sold by J. Dodsley...; T. Cadell...; and J. Todd..., 1778. 4 volumes. 8vo, pp. [iv], 168 [169 Contents, 170 blank]; xv [xvi blank], 161 [162 blank]; xii, 166; xiv, 239 [240 blank], contemporary calf, gilt spines, morocco labels; no portrait in volume 1, two blank leaves, title-page and three following leaves wormed in volume 2 (slightly affecting "m" and "s" in "Poems"), tops and bases of spines chipped, joints a little fragile, but a decent set. Mason published the first collected edition of Gray's poems in 1775, four years after the poet's death in 1771. He included a number of poems that Gray had chosen not to print, and his biographical method, using Gray's letters to form a narrative, was innovative. Mason's memoirs of Gray's life have some utilitarian value, but later scholars have not forgiven him for falsifying some of the letters and destroying the originals.

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Book number: 5727

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry biography literature

GRAY (Thomas). MASON (William), editor:

The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason, M. A.

York: Printed by A. Ward; and sold by J. Dodsley..., London..., 1775. FIRST COLLECTED COMPLETE EDITION. 4to, 266 x 205 mms., pp. [iv], 416, 111 [112 Contents, 113 Errata, 114 - 116 blank], engraved portrait (by James Basire after B. Wilson, contemporary diced calf, gilt spine, black leather label; lower portion of boards damp-stained, affecting lower corner of first five leads, joints cracked, corners worn. A serviceable copy, with the contemporary armorial bookplate of Charles Legh Hoskins Master on the front paste-down end-paper and an appreciative note on the verso of the front free marbled end-paper, but probably in a later hand and not that of Hoskins Master. In his last years, Gray (1716 - 1771) was Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, though he never gave an inaugural lecture. One of his last compositions, published in 1769, was an ode performed at the installation of His Grace Augustus-Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of the University; this was set to music by the Professor of Music, Dr. John Randal, and included here in the poems, which comprise the shorter part of the volume. Mason included in the volume poems that Gray had not intended to print. Mason composed the memoirs by quoting from selected letters, linked by some narrative, a form of biography that he seems to have inaugurated, or at least made popular.

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Book number: 7103

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography poetry literature

GRAY (Thomas):

Poems by Mr. Gray.

Dublin: Printed by William Streeter..., 1768. 12mo, 173 x 95 mms., pp. [9], 12 - 187 [188 blank], with engraved frontispiece "The Bard" (not included in pagination), engraved title-page (included in pagination), 3 engraved vignettes in text, contemporary calf, red leather label; slight worming of upper front joint, but generally a very good to fine copy, with the contemporary autograph "Richd. [?Chaloner]" on title-page The "Advertisement" following the title-page states, "At the desire of some Gentlemen, for whose Taste and Judgment the Editor hath the greatest Respect, has added in this Edition of Mr. Gray's Poems two Latin Translations of the celebrated Elegy written in a Country Church-yard, with a poetical Address to the Author; one by the Rev. Lloyd, the other by an anonimous [sic] Person, which Translations and Poems, it is hoped, will not be unacceptable to the classical Reader." Sleater issued three printings in 1768; this one corresponds to ESTC T55692.

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Book number: 7986

Catalogue: Poems

Keywords: poems translation literature

GRAY (Thomas):

Poems by Mr. Gray. A New Edition.

Edinburgh: Printed and Sold by Gavin Alston. 1779 16mo, 102 x 57 mms., pp. [ix] 10 - 108, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red leather label; joints and corners rubbed, but a very good copy, inscribed on the half-title, "Dr. L. Meyers/ From his Friend/ A Smith." ESCT T478526 locates only the copy in the BL.

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Book number: 9662

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry association copy literature

GRAY, M THOMAS

The Poems of Thomas Gray

Oxford University Press, 1950. Hardcover. 162pp, blue cloth/ gilt lettering, no d/w Nice and bright; World's Classics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Very Good .

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Book number: 75353

THOMAS GRAY

Poems

Trianon press, 1971, Broché, in-4. Couverture salie, une déchirure sur le rhodoïd. Condition: Etat moyen

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Book number: A105400

GRAY, THOMAS

Poems

London, Eton College. 1937, 5th or later Edition. Hardcover, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, 88pp 4to, bound in vellum gilt, top edge gilt, gilt coat of arms to front board, bevelled boards, for Eton College, inscribed by the headmaster C C Elliott to William Ashmead Francis Burdett-Coutts (latinised) dated amended by the head to 1939. Good.

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Book number: 023501

Keywords: poetry

GRAY, THOMAS.

Poems.

Eton, Eton College Press, 1894.

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Book number: 41136AB

Catalogue: VariaNeu

Keywords: 19. Jahrhundert; Einbände; Englisch; Illustrierte Bücher; Literatur

GRAY, THOMAS

Poems and Letters

London, Chiswick Press. 1879. hardcover. VG+ in a hardcover library binding. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. This is a large book, weighing 2.4 kg. 414 p. Good.

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Book number: 092343

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Gray, Thomas

Poems of Thomas Gray

London, Privately Printed for Et. Paperback , Condition: VeryGood.

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Book number: mon0000157997

Thomas Gray:

Poems and letters by Thomas Gray.

London: Chiswick Press, 1879. No edition stated (hardback). 4to, xvi, 415pp. Portrait frontispiece, 3 oval photographs tipped in to the section on poems. Full brown calf, gilt titling and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt. Binding somewhat rubbed, light foxing of the preliminary pages, gift inscription (dated 1882), some minor staining of the endpapers. Overall, this copy is in good condition.

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Book number: 22670

Catalogue: 3

GRAY Thomas

Poems by Thomas Gray [Eton College edition]. oems by Thomas Gray [Eton College edition].

Eton College,, 1946]. 4to., on laid paper; full vellum, upper board blocked with college crest in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy. Privately printed for Eton College in the Riccardi Press fount of the Medici Society. This edition was issued as a leaving gift. This copy was presented to Martin William Frederick Maxse by Robert Bailey in 1953. Colonel Martin William Frederick Maxse (1935 - ) was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Coldstream Guards between 1981 and 1984 and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Devon in 1995

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Book number: 11129

Catalogue: Literature0

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GRAY Thomas

Poems of Thomas Gray. With Watercolour Illustrations by William Blake. [Commentary by Irene Tayler]. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Folio Society,, [2013]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece and 116 fine watercolour plates in facsimile; pictorial cloth, morocco back, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, Commentary Volume in brown cloth, gilt back, the two volumes housed in publisher's buckram solander case lettered in gilt, a fine set. EDITION LIMTED TO 1000 SETS. This splendid FS production reproduces the original watercolours, acquired by Paul Mellon in 1966 and now in the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art. A number of scholars have written about this work, but Irene Tayler’s 1971 book, Blake’s Illustrations to the Poems of Gray, remains the most comprehensive and compelling reading. Presented here as a separate commentary volume, Tayler’s account tells how the illustrations were produced, relates Blake’s interpretation of the poems to his own ideas, and provides a detailed commentary on each poem.

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Book number: 23740

Catalogue: Folio Society0

Keywords: mstock, folio society, thomas gray, william blake, irene tayler, thomas gray, folio society, poems, thomas, gray