Poems / By Mr Gray

London: J. Dodsley, 1768. Book. Very Good +. Full-Leather. First Edition. First edition, first printing, of Thomas Gray's first collected poems. Title page dated 1768. Includes the scarce half-title page. 120 text pages followed by a "Contents" page with 10 titles listed. Three original blank pages precede and one original blank page follows the text. 19th-century signed fine binding by… Read more about this item

This hardcover copy of Thomas Gray's poems from the year 1786 has been beautifully rebound and is in very good condition.

Dublin: William Sleater, 1775. Hardcover. Good. Small 8vo, original calf binding, red leather label with titles on spine. Worn at edges, small piece missing at base of spine. 197pp, also included is ”The Bard" and 2 Latin, one Italian translations as detailed below, (all not included in pagination). The "Advertisement" following the contents page states, "At the… Read more about this item

Yorkshire and London: The Scolar Press, 1973. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto; pp 63; G/Fair; green spine with black text; first Scolar facsimile reprint; dust jacket has several chips to edges, as is; slightly soiled exterior; cloth shows lightly sunned exterior; strong boards; text block shows slightly toned exterior edges; previous owner's name to ffep; interior clean;. 1324925. FP New… Read more about this item

Printed for J. Murray, 1790. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. thin 8vo [2]178pp+plts Spine title: Gray's Poems. 'A new edition' (title page); contains 13 poems altogether, plus an uncredited biographical sketch, Gray's last will and testament, and 'The Tears of Genius: An Ode, to the Memory of Mr. Gray' by one… Read more about this item

London: Printed for John Murray, (No. 31.) Fleet Street, 1780. New Edition. Title page in red and black in ESTC citation, but here printed only in black - The plates are variously dated: 'Fatal sisters', Nov. 20 1777; 'Descent of Odin', Aug. 15 1776; and 'Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke', Nov. 1783. 8vo. Mottled nineteenth century calf, a.e.g. Fine. … Read more about this item

Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, 1773. Full Calf. Very Good. A near miniature, 16mo, or 4.75 by 3 inches, including a few of the Odes, "The Progress of Poesy", "The Fatal Sisters", "The Descent of Odin", "The Triumphs of Owen", and of course, "Elegy written in a Country Church-yard" and "The Epitaph". Some… Read more about this item

Glasgow, Scotland: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1768. full leather, five raised bands, gilt on spine. Foulis. 4to. full leather, five raised bands, gilt on spine. (ii), 63, (1) pages. First Glasgow Edition, with the true first edition being the English edition published in the same year. This is the variant with the '*' signatures. (Gaskell 475, Rothschild… Read more about this item

London: J. Murray, 1778. Later printing. Hardcover. Good + overall. Sml 8vo, 158pp, b&w frontis, b&w illus. One half green calf with marbled boards; gilt title (Gray's Poems) at spine. Spine is toned; small scratch at calf at top front cover. Internally, bookplate inside front cover; inscription dated 1787 at ffep wiritten by an Amanda Lock who also… Read more about this item

London: J. Dodsley. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1768. Hardcover. POETRY; 18th Century; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; [4],119,[3]p. pages; Contemp. Speckled calf, maroon morocco spine label, scuffed joints & extremities rubbed. Free endpaper starting to detach. Browning at edges of front and back matter, close tear in leaf B2 - negligible paper loss. Scattered… Read more about this item

London: J. Murray, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. New edition. 72pp. Measuring 9" x 11.5". Illustrations by William Blake. Introduction and commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Fine in a near fine age-toned dustwrapper with an internal tape repair on the spine with light foxing, near fine.

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London: J. Dodsley, 1768. Carefully respined, edges of the binding rubbed but an excellent copy.. Octavo, with the rare half-title; contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf, in contemporary calf, preserved in a folding cloth case. First edition, second issue with the contents at page 121. This is the first London edition and includes the famous 'Elegy Written in… Read more about this item

London: J Dodsley, 1768. Hardcover. Good.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The New edition of the first edition also published in 1768. Bound in contemporary tan calf. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration and red title label. Edges are very rubbed and worn. Shoulders are splitting and front and rear hinges are loose. Small stains… Read more about this item

London: J. Dodsley, 1768. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 4.5". None. A very early edition of the poems of Thomas Gray, a wonderful complete edition of his Romantic works. A new edition, published in the same year as the first edition. Half-title and contents leaf both present.Collated, complete. The collected poems and letters of Thomas Gray. Also including his various… Read more about this item

London: J. Murray, 1778. hardback. Full calf-bound boards, with some inkstaining; gilt-edging and ribbed spine intact; titling block on spine still visible, guttering with some wear inside and out; pages crisp and tight, unmarked apart from occasional pencil markings and the odd tear. Owner's inscription on ffep from 1788.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). A… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Murray 1776. 4to. [ii], 146 pp. 2 copper engravings dated 1776. Modern sympathetic respine over original tree calf with rubbed gilt borders to boards; gilt lettering and ruling to spine with raised bands; black leather title label; marbled endpapers. Wear to corners and rubbing to boards. 3 ink inscriptions to one page of prelims. Largely clean… Read more about this item

J Murray , 1778 . Hardback. . 16mo full calf with gilt decoration and black title/author label. With 3 full page illus. and title page vignette. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Fair hardback. Edgeworn, front board detached and back hinge tender. Small rectangle cut out of front free endpaper. Light foxing… Read more about this item

London: J. Murray, 1786. A New Edition. A New Edition. Original or contemporary red way grain calf with gilt spine, marbled endpapers. Engraved title page with publisher's cypher monogram, engraved frontispiece and six additional superb engraved plates with captions and dates impressed in plates. A beautiful production. A.E.G. Slight corner wear, spine rubbed, near fine copy internally with only… Read more about this item

Paris and London: Trianon Press/J. Philip O'Hara, Inc., 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. William Blake. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy with light edge rubbing to jacket and a designer bookplate on the free endpaper, in a Brodart jacket cover.