The works of Thomas Gray : collated from the various editions : with memoirs of his life and writings ...

Accession number: 
PML 27017
Author: 
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
Published: 
London : Printed and published by J.F. Dove ..., 1827.
Credit: 
Gift of J.P. Morgan, 1929.
Description: 
x, [11]-446 pages, [1] leaves of plates : port. ; 23 cm (8vo)
Notes: 

Actual height is 22.3 cm.
The memoirs by Mason are largely composed from Gray's letters (NCBEL).
Frontispiece portrait of Gray engraved by Scriven.

Binding: 
Maroon morocco, blind- and gold-tooled (hatched), with double fore-edge painting of the Aire and Hornby Castle in Leeds, with arms of the Duke of Leeds; in a modern case.
Provenance: 
George Sanger; James Bain, bookseller (inserted manuscript note tracing ownership by Sanger family).
Classification: 
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