Poems

London: J. Dodsley 1768. Small 8vo. First Collected Edition of Gray's poems. [ii], 121 pp. Full calf with raised bands, red title label gilt beetle decorations and lettering to spine. Marking to the boards, splitting to the front joints and loss to the spine ends. Front board slightly loose. Binding of the textblock firm. Slight scattered spotting and minor offsetting… Read more about this item

Privately Printed for Eton College, 1937. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Imitation velum now discoloured and faded, heavily so to the spine. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. Text complete, clean and tight. The bound-in Eton presentation page — “Hunc Librum… Ab Etona Discedenti Dono Dedit… Magister Informator. Etonae A.D. MCMX” — has… Read more about this item

London: Privately printed for Eton College in The Riccardi Press Fount of The Medici Society, 1928. [Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING, ex libris Sir Martin Gilliat. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[4] viii; 87 [9]. With two black and white plates from another book, showing Gray's Summer House and Stoke Poges Church, loosely inserted. Bound in full vellum, with gilt… Read more about this item

London: Eton College; Riccardi Press Fount of the Medici Society, 1937. Paperback. Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 8.5". None. A privately printed collection of poetry by Thomas Gray, presented in a paper-vellum binding for Eton College school leavers. 1937 Private Printing, 'privately printed for Eton College in the Riccardi Press Fount of the Medici Society Limited'.With an illustrated… Read more about this item

London: Privately printed for Eton College by The Medici Society 1937. Large 8vo. x., 89 pp. Eton prize with prize leaf after first blank. Full vellum with gilt device to front board & morocco label to spine. Top edge gilt. Bevelled edges. Vellum fresh. Internally clean. A nice copy. . Near Fine. Full Vellum. 1937.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley,, 1768. First collected edition, in a contemporary binding retaining the half-title. The volume includes some of Gray's most popular works, such as "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College", and poems from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751), Designs by Mr. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray (1753) and Odes,… Read more about this item

London: Chiswick Press, 1887. Leather. 168p. FINE BINDING BY RIVIERE & SON. A hardcover book bound in full golden-brown leather with ornate gilt decorations on the boards, spine, and dentelles. The spine features five raised bands, the endpapers are marbled, and all foredges are gilt. Lots of little rub marks and some faint spotting on the boards and spine.… Read more about this item

London: Riccardi Press for Eton College, 1946. Vellum. Very Good Indeed/Good Only. 10" by 7.5". None. A nice privately printed edition of the poetical works of the Romantic Thomas Gray, printed for Eton, from the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Privately printed by Riccardi Press for Eton College, with an Eton presentation leaf before the half-title.In the original scarce… Read more about this item

Eton: Eton College Press, 1894. 1st Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Type: Book pp XLV, 164. Fully bound in tan calf by Ingleton Drake. 5 raised bands to spine, green spine title label with extensive gilt decoration to spine, boards and outer and inner edges. Blue marbled end papers, AEG, Armorial plate to FPD, school prize… Read more about this item

The Medici Society for Eton College , 1967. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, small quarto, grey cloth lettered gilt, dust jacket not called for in this edition. A very good tightly bound copy, presentation leaf signed by the then Headmaster of Eton, Michael McCrum, viii + 87pp.

Eton College: Spottiswoode and Co. Ltd. , 1907. Leather. Very Good. 10.5" by 7". Not Stated . The collected poems of Thomas Gray, in an elegant full calf Eton College binding, illustrated throughout. An Eton college prize binding, with tipped in gift leaf, presenting the work to E. Lyttleton in 1911. Complete with… Read more about this item

Eton: Eton College Press, 1902. Leather. Very Good. 10.5" by 6.5". None. A handsome edition of Gray's poetry printed as a presentation volume for students at Eton College. Featuring a portrait frontispiece and several further plates. Binder's stamp of Spottiswoode and Co to verso of front free-endpaper. Thomas Gray was a English… Read more about this item

Eton: Eton College at the Riccardi Press, 1946. Vellum. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 8". None. An attractive prize presentation copy of the poems of Thomas Gray. Privately printed for Eton College at the Riccardi Press. Gray was an Etonian himself, and this volume includes his "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College". A… Read more about this item

Eton: Eton College Press, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Handsomely produced at Eton College as prize volume for pupils. This copy presented to Johanni (John) Wormald in 1900. Portrait frontispiece offsetting to title page, and three further engravings. Occasional foxing, but in general all is clean and bright. Attractive marbled endpapers.… Read more about this item

London: Printed privately foe Eton College by Medici Society Limited, 1927. Private edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original full gilt-blocked vellum over bevelled boards with armonial motif to front board. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy contains Etonian prize label inscribed to Simon Jacobs Mosley, laid in privately printed for Eton in… Read more about this item

London: Eton College; Riccardi Press Fount of the Medici Society, 1937. Vellum. Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 7.5". None. A smart collection of verses by Thomas Gray, privately printed for leavers of Eton College and presented in a vellum binding. Privately printed for leavers of Eton College in 1939.A collection of poetry from Thomas Gray, an English… Read more about this item

ETON COLLEGE, 1928. PRINTED FOR ETON COLLEGE IN THE RICCARDI PRESS FOUNT OF THE MEDICI SOCIETY. PP. 85, FULL VELLUM (GRUBBY), SIGNED BY THE HEAD (CYRIL ALINGTON) AND DEDICATED TO RICCARDO BOYLE (OR DICKY BOYLE IF YOU WENT TO A COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL). ENDPAPERS FOXED, OTHERWISE VERY GOOD AND TIGHT.

Medici Society, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. No edition remarks. 87 pages. No dust jacket. White cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout, heavy to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Murray, (No. 31) Fleet-Street, 1790. A New Edition. 3 engraved plates. [2], 178pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full later mottled calf , gilt spine, edges yelllow by Bayntun. Fine copy. A New Edition. 3 engraved plates. [2], 178pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

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