GRAY THOMAS Poems

Sale 2355 - Lot 142

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EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY WITH MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT GRAY, THOMAS. Poems. Extra-illustrated with about 110 engraved plates, many in proof state, mostly portraits, including about 11 of Gray. 8vo, green morocco, covers gilt panelled, spines gilt in compartments, rubbed, spine head dented with slight separation at the top of front joint; red morocco doublures with elaborately gilt borders, all edges gilt, by Bedford. Provenance: Robert Hoe, with his booklabel. London, 1800

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Includes a small 11-line manuscript fragment by Gray laid down on a front fly-leaf; the fragment is discussed in a tipped-in letter from Mr. Frederickson to Robert Hoe: "I enclose for your acceptance a small, but genuine fragment of MS. by the Immortal Author of an 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'—it seems to be definitions of Provincial words used in some portion of 'Merry England.' " And with an ALS from Bedford concerning the binding tipped-in.