Gray (English Men of Letters Series) by Gray, Thomas) Gosse, Edmund - 1901

Frederick A. Stokes, 1895-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Hardcovers. 4 VOLUME SET. ORIGINAL 1895 PRINTING. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers (brown boards) show light edge wear. Bindings tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

A.C. Armstrong & Son, 1885. Library Rebinding. Acceptable. in x in x in. Volume 4 only.

ENGLISH ODES, C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1881, first edition, some wear to fore edge corner tips and raised spine extremities, else a tight vg copy rebound by Riviere and Sons in 3/4 leather and marbled boards and matching marble end-papers with t.p.e.'s in gold-gilt. Contributions by John Milton, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, William Congreve, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, et.al. 

Frederick A. Stokes, 1895. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 volumes complete, very good greenish cloth hardcovers (no dust jackets) with gilt to covers and spines shows some soiling at covers and page edges, rubbing and bumping at cover edges and corners, touch of foxing at end papers and some other light trace wear including a closed tear at top edge of half title page of volume 4, else tight and clean. Over 1600 pages illustrated. Solid set that features of course Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard for which the English poet and scholar was best known.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1895. Hardcover. Green gilt decorated cloth; gilt of spine completely faded .

London : Macmillan and Co., 1903-1912 . Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. A complete four volume set of these reprints of the works of Thomas Gray, edited by Edmund Gosse. A complete four volume set. These volumes have been edited by Edmund Gosse. Volume one is a copy of the revised edition, published in 1912 containing poems, journals and essays. Volume two contains letters and was published in 1903. Volume three was also published in 1903 and contains letters. Volume four contains notes on Aristophanes and Plato and was published in 1906. Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer and classical scholar. With a frontispiece to each volume. Collated, complete. With adverts to the rear of all volumes. With a bookplate for E. M. Sladden to the front pastedowns. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with fading to the spine of volume one and four and light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. With light marks to the boards. With a bookplate for E. M.… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1884 . Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5". Not stated. A complete set of the works of Thomas Gray with illustrations. Early edition of The Works of Thomas Gray In Prose and Verse edited by Edmund Gosse in the original publisher's cloth bindings. Complete in four uniform volumes. Edmund Gosse was a lecturer of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. This collection includes the following volumes of Gray's works.Volume I, Poems, Journals and EssaysVolume II, Letters – IVolume III, Letters – IIVolume IV, Notes on Aristophanes and PlatoIllustrated with a monochrome plate as the frontispiece for each volume with tissue guards. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth bindings. Externally, there is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. There are some light marks to the boards and some damage to the spines. The spine of volume 1 is rubbed. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with the occasional spot… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co.. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1884. 1st Edition. First Printing. Leather. Full green calf by Bradstreet's (spines sunned to a lovely brown); spines in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tools in remainder, t.e.g., floral gilt decorated dentelles, silk ribbon markers bound in. This set includes volumes 1 & 2 of the 4-volume set. Volume 1 comprises Gray's Poems, Journals, and Essays, including his famous Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard. Volume 2 is the first of three volumes of his Letters. . Both volumes are in wonderful condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, fresh, and clean. The spines are sunned to a beautiful brown, the decorated dentelles have left their shadow on the edges of the ffeps, else as new. A very attractive pair of books. FINE.. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxiii, 409, (2-ads); xii, 402, (2-ads) pp .

New York: A. C. Armstrong, 1885. RARE. Complete set in publisher's original blue cloth, gilt spines, dark brown end papers, tops gilt. Near Fine, slight rubs to cloth at tips. A quite handsome set. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

A. C. Armstrong & Son. As New. 1885. Hardcover. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - COMPLETE FOUR (4) VOLUME SET. Mild cover and spine shelfwear; front hinge cracked on Volume 3; else fine with lovely leather bindings and marbled coverboards, endpapers and fore-edges. Each volume includes an image of Gray or a facsimile or his writing as frontispiece with tissue overlay. -- with a bonus offer-- .