An elegy written in a country churchyard / by Thomas Gray.
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Category
Books
Date
1855
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124752
Summary
Bibliographic description
23, [1] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; 8vo. Imperfect: guardsheets not present. Pencil note in nineteenth-century hand at foot of leaf [2] identifies 'A Lady' as "Miss J E Benham". Bookseller's[?] pencil note on second front free endpaper includes price "£15". Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: nineteenth-century full dark green morocco, gilt tooling on boards and spine; sewn onto five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Gray's Elegy'; gilt fillets on board edges; gilt tooling on turn-ins; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Bookseller's gilt stamp on front pastedown: 'Asprey. London. England.'; also binder's gilt stamp: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf. London. England.'.
Makers and roles
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), author Thomas Bolton (fl.1851-1893), engraver (printmaker) James Davis Cooper (1823-1904), engraver (printmaker) Myles Birket Foster (North Shields 1825 – Weybridge 1899), illustrator W. T. Green (fl.1837-1872), engraver (printmaker) Horace Harral (1817-1905), engraver (printmaker) William James Linton (London 1812 - Newhaven, Conn. 1898), engraver (printmaker) William Frederick Measom (1813-after 1881), engraver (printmaker) George Housman Thomas (London 1824 - Boulogne 1868), illustrator Josiah Wood Whymper (Ipswich 1813 - Haslemere 1903), engraver (printmaker)