Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard

Publisher's full blue cloth, silver lettering and raised decoration on cover, decorated endpapers, all edges blue. In blue slipcase. Beautifully illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, sketched in the very same country church-yard that inspired the poem. Introduction by Hugh Walpole. It is known that Gray wrote the Elegy between 1746 and 1750. Three manuscript drafts are in existence. One manuscript, now at Eton College, is probably the original draft; and the text of this manuscript is printed in the last pages of the present edition. Although the first printing was issued anonymously in 1751, an edition issued in 1768 received the poet's final approbation. Therefore the text used in the present edition to company Miss Parker's engravings follows closely the approved edition of 1768. . Former owner's printed bookplate on ffep, otherwise this volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. The slipcase is in excellent condition. NEAR FINE. . Wood engravings. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 92 pp

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Publisher: The Heritage Press

Year: xv, 1951

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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