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1867 Thomas Gray Graveyard Poet & English Poems & English Letters Photograph Art

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1867 Thomas Gray Graveyard Poet & English Poems & English Letters Photograph Art

Thomas Gray was an 18th-century English poet, who, while living in Cambridge, was regarded as the best English-language poet of his generation. Even after his death, he was regularly associated with Oliver Goldsmith and William Cowper as being one of Englands most iconic 18th-century poets, known as the Graveyard Poets.

This collection of his poems and letters contains full-page photograph-style engravings.

Item number: #17771

Price: $499

GRAY, Thomas

Poems and letters

London : Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1867.

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

xvi, 415, [1]

4 engravings

Provenance: Stamp â€“ Jacobus J. Hornby

James John Hornby (1826â€“1909) was an English rower and headmaster of Eton College from 1868 to 1884, of which Thomas Gray was an alumnus. This copy has a handwritten inscription to Sergio Alexandro [C]raddoc Reid, presumably a student matriculating from Eton with a Doctorate of Divinity, dated 1869.

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight and secure

Size: ~11.25in X 8.75in (28.5cm x 22.5cm)

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