Title: Elegy in a country church-yard & other poems...
Publisher: Bryce, David & Son, & Frederick A. Stokes Co. Glasgow & New York.
Publication Date: 1904
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
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. Seller Inventory # 5439