1887 Poems by Thomas Gray

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Prize Binding, Rebound, Signed Binding

Bound in signed full armorial calf by Riviere and Son, with gilt detailing to the boards and dentelles. 

An Eton College prize copy of Thomas Gray’s poetry, with the laid-in Eton prize leaf dated 1893.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and three engraved plates for Ode on the Spring, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, and Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, plus a brief biography by the Hon. Horace Walpole. Collated, complete.

Includes Gray’s original poems alongside English and Latin verse translations from Petrarch, the Anthologia Græca, and others.

Thomas Gray (1716–1771) was an English poet and scholar, best known for Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751), one of the most famous poems of the 18th century.