Order Nr. 137442 ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. Thomas Gray.
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.

ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.

(Essex House Press).
  • New York, NY: Essex House Press, 1900.
  • small 8vo
  • full ivory colored vellum, an embossed image of a rose and "Soul is Form" on the front cover, paper dust jacket
  • 13 pages

Price: $2,000.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 137442

Privately printed in an edition of 125 numbered copies printed by C. R. Ashbee of the Essex House Press for Edward Arnold. In the incredibly scarce original paper dustjacket. All tissue guards present. A tight, bright, and unmarred copy. Part of C. R. Ashby's "Great Poems" series. A hand-colored frontispiece showing the tomb of the poet at Stoke Pogis Church. The initial letters of the verses are hand-colored woodcuts. A beautiful, scarce Arts-and-Crafts copy of a well-loved poem.