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Elegy in a country church-yard & other poems.: >>MINIATURE ELEGY TO UNSUNG PAUPERS<<
by Gray, Thomas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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383, [1] printed pages. Frontispiece and 16 full-page illustrations. Annotated throughout. Lacks front free endpaper and half title. Beautifully printed, mainly in 6-point but also in very clear diamond type, 4.5-point, on very thin India paper, by the University Press, Glasgow. Complete works of Thomas Gray excepting posthumous pieces Agrippina and Poemata. Extensive biographical sketch, pages 9-66. All edges gilt. 40 x 65 mm. Original tan suede or reverse calf with embossed scene of churchyard on front cover. Yapp style binding. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is the British writer Thomas Gray's most famous poem, first published in 1751. Gray muses about a villager buried there who could have been a more modest version of the politician John Hampden (who fought for the people's rights against an authoritarian king), fearlessly standing up to the landlord who owned the fields he worked. Bondy, 115-6. Spielmann, 174. Welsh, 3134. OCLC, 46338158. WorldCat locates 10 copies worldwide.
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- Bookseller
- Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5439
- Title
- Elegy in a country church-yard & other poems.
- Author
- Gray, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bryce, David & Son, & Frederick A. Stokes Co.
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow & New York.
- Date Published
- 1904
- Pages
- 383, [1] printed pages.
- Size
- 40 x 65 mm.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry , MINITURE BOOKS , Miniature Books , Miniature Book , Miniature, DAVID BRYCE & CO. , MINIATUR-AUSGABE, MINI-LIVRES ,LITERATURE, Literary Classics , Literary, David Bryce & Co.
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Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
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London, London
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My book expertise came with four years as Chairman of London P.B.F.A. , many more years of exhibiting at monthly London Rare Book Fairs & owning my own bookshops continuously since 1984.
Every book here was valued by the person who first bought it and will be just as prized by the person who buys it now from my shopping website.
I am an accredited professional & a full member of the ABA, ILAB and the IOBA, "Setting the standard. The books you want...from booksellers you can trust".
You can meet me on my stand at Firsts 2024, London's Rare Book Fair, at the Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, 16-19 May 2024.
I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
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