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An elegy written in a country church-yard / by Thomas Gray ; with an introduction by James Southall Wilson ; & a foreword by William Andrews Clark, Jr. ...

Accession number
PML 23243
Creator
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
Published
San Francisco : Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr. by John Henry Nash, 1925.
Credit line
Gift of William Andrews Clark, Jr. 1925.
Notes
Facsimile volume is of Clark's copy of the first edition (same as PML 6866), and includes facsimile of manuscript notes by Locker-Lampson.
Uncut; actual height is 36.4 cm.
Frontispiece portrait of Gray and engraved border drawn by Wilke and engraved by Griffith.
Both volumes printed in a limited edition of 200 copies.
Edition with introduction by Clark follows that of the critical edition of 1768 (see p. xix).
Description
[4], xxx, 11, [3] p. : port. ; 37 cm. (fol.) + 1 facsimile (11, [1] p. ; 25 cm)
Binding
Publisher's half vellum, gray paper boards, gold-tooled red morocco spine label; volumes with matching bindings, in publisher's slip-case.
Classification
Department