Verlag: Wentworth Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 1373562099 ISBN 13: 9781373562098
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson, New York, 2009
ISBN 10: 0500514917 ISBN 13: 9780500514917
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
Hardcover. Quarto; VG/VG; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, grey with black print; DJ is clean and bright; Boards in blue and cream paper with black print, clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; 79 pages, frontispiece (port.), illustrated (b&w, color). [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates.] NOTE: Shelved in Room X, Case #5.1. 1336672. FP New Rockville Stock.
Verlag: London : J. F. Dove, 1827, 1827
Anbieter: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: USED_GOOD. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.01.
Verlag: E.P. Dutton and Co, New York, 1931
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. Octavo, 75 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is tan with black print. Dust jacket has edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners, tear to rear panel, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Boards quarter bound with blue cloth to spine and white cloth to boards. Peripheral toning to white cloth. Text block has tanning/foxing to endpapers, large owner stamp on front endpapers, toning to pages adjacent to plates. Illustrated with b&w frontispiece and plates. "Gray's Elegy"- title on dust jacket. "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard"- half-title page. 1372197. FP New Rockville Stock.
Anbieter: Antiquariat Clemens Paulusch GmbH, Berlin, Deutschland
Kunst / Grafik / Poster
Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. Kupferstich v. Devrient, 1819, 9 x 7 (H).
Verlag: WENTWORTH PR, 2016
ISBN 10: 1374290696 ISBN 13: 9781374290693
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Gebunden. Zustand: New.
Verlag: WENTWORTH PR, 2016
ISBN 10: 1373712546 ISBN 13: 9781373712547
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Gebunden. Zustand: New.
Verlag: J Murray,, London,, 1790
Anbieter: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 'New Edition' 8vo. pp xxix, 178. A later issue of John Murray's edition of the Poems. Contains among other poems his Elegy in a Country Church Yard. This includes his response to a charge of plagiarism from William Mason (1725-1797) for content in an earlier edition. The unattributed biographical account of Gray is by Gilbert Wakefield (1725-1797). To the poems are added Gray's last will and testament. There are 7 engraved plates (inc frontis) dated variously 1776-1783, 4 of which are new to this edition. Fairly recent half dark brown leather binding spine, lettered and ruled in gilt with 5 raised bands and marbled boards. Very good indeed.
Verlag: Eton: E.P. Williams, 1847, 1847
Anbieter: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Vereinigtes Königreich
[Poetry] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] x; lxvi; 142 [2]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary red full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and Gray's Eton memorial and Eton College Chapel stamped in gilt to boards. All edges gilt, and endpapers marbled. Black ink gift inscription to first blank: 'William K.H.R. White | with the best wishes | of his sincere friend | Charles J. Cornish | on his leaving Eton | Midsummer 1847.' Heavy spotting to plates, blanks and facing leaves, otherwise crisp and clean. Spine toned, with some light rubbing and a couple of bumps. Very good. A decidedly deluxe edition of Gray's poetry, with about one third of the volume consisting of a Life of the poet. Likely bound to be used interchangeably as a gift or prize book.
Verlag: Eton: E.P. Williams, 1854, 1854
Anbieter: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Vereinigtes Königreich
[Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] viii; c; 142 [4]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary tan full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label, and further gilt tooling to spine. Also with Gray's Eton memorial and Eton College Chapel stamped in gilt to boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Black ink ownership to first blank. Heavy spotting to plates and facing leaves, otherwise quite clean internally. Much of the gilt decoration on the spine has been rubbed away, but the title label is unaffected. Light wear to binding overall. Very good. A decidedly deluxe edition of Gray's poetry, with nearly half the volume consisting of additional material, including a Life of the poet, some literary criticism, and even a series of 'introductory stanzas' by the Reverend John Moultrie. Likely bound to be used interchangeably as a gift or prize book, it contains no evidence of a dedication or prize inscription.
Verlag: London: Privately printed for Eton College in The Riccardi Press Fount of The Medici Society, 1928, 1928
Anbieter: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Vereinigtes Königreich
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[Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING, ex libris Sir Martin Gilliat. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[4] viii; 87 [9]. With two black and white plates from another book, showing Gray's Summer House and Stoke Poges Church, loosely inserted. Bound in full vellum, with gilt titles to spine, the arms of Eton College stamped to upper, and machine-marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. A school leavers gift, inscribed from Cyril Alington, Head Master of Eton College, to Martin Gilliat, dated 1931. Some spotting to preliminaries and final leaves. Some minor marks to binding. Boards bowed, as usual with vellum. Near fine. Gilliat was a decorated career-soldier who was captured at Dunkirk in 1940, spending much of the Second World War at Colditz Castle. After the war he served under Mountbatten in India, and under Slim in Australia, before spending 37 years as the private secretary to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother from 1956.
Verlag: Eleven items dating from and 1915. Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge Auctioneers 13 Wellington Street Strand London W.C, 1914
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. A nice collection of ephemera, relating not only to one of England's best-loved poets, but also to Sotheby's auction practice during the Great War. The provenance of the Gray letters put up for auction by Mrs Turpin is given in a New York Times article of 27 June 1915 ('To sell relics of Thomas Gray; many letters by the poet will also be put up at auction at Sotheby's'), which stated in a report on the forthcoming sale that the letters 'were transmitted to the present owner, Mrs. Turpin, from her father, John Hobbs, to whom they came in about 1840 through the marriage of a relative to a connection of the Antrobus family' (this information coming from p.39 of the auction catalogue, see Item Eleven). The consignor Sarah Turpin was the second wife of the organist Edmund Hart Turpin, who has an entry in the Oxford DNB. Eleven items. The material is in fair condition, with the Sotheby letters lightly aged; the other items are more heavily discoloured, and the title leaf of the catalogue (Item Eleven) has been torn into two pieces. ONE to SEVEN: Correspondence from Sotheby's to Mrs Turpin, dating from between 28 July 1914 and 9 July 1915. The seven items are each 1p, 12mo; the first and last are in manuscript, four in typescript, and the last is a printed form. Begins with a simple receipt, 28 July 1914: 'Received of Mrs Turpin / Bundle of Grays letters / Knife & fork in Leather Case / Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge'. In the second letter, 22 July 1914, the auction house states that 'Gray's Desk on which he wrote the Elegy, his knife & fork and other personal items you mention should certainly be of interest, and, if you have authentic evidence as to pedigree, they should realise a good price at auction. Could you bring them down to us one day for inspection at an early date? We should be happy to give you our opinion as to value without charge provided, if satisfactory, they are left with us for sale. The volume of Gray's Poems 1775 would, we fear, be of small value.' On 6 January 1915 the firm reports that 'we have now found the knife and fork and letters of Thomas Gray the poet which you left with us early in August. Gray's letters are very uncommon and those you have sent us are of importance though the majority of them are not unfortunately of much general interest in themselves. One of our principals will be very pleased to come down and see you to discuss matters relating to the sale & to examine the bureau'. On 22 April 1915 Sotheby's states that they 'have not however as yet thought it advisable to hold any sales of books, manuscripts or relics since the War began'. A month later they state that they propose to include 'your letters and relics of Thomas Gray the Poet in a good sale which we hope to arrange for the beginning of July', sending a description for correction and asking for Mrs Turpin's father's 'full name and the approximate date at which he came into possession of the Relics'. A printed for completed on 9 July 1915 records the sale of the material on 8 July, for the gross amount of £66 8s 0d. In the final letter, 12 July 1915, the firm states that it is 'sorry that you are disappointed at the result of your sale last week though we think that in the present circumstances the result of the sale was fairly satisfactory'. The letter concludes: 'We shall be glad to sell your first editions of Dickens if they are clean copies though of course they have been greatly reduced in value through having been bound.' EIGHT: Undated printed receipt, completed without date, giving the amount received by Mrs Turpin as £57 18s 6d. NINE: Manuscript accounts sent to Mrs Turpin, giving the 'Gross amount of Sale', £66 8s 0d; charges for 'Carriage, Men's time &c removing', 3s 6d; 'Commission @ 12½ per cent, £8 9s 6d, and amount recieved as per Item Nine. Written lengthwise on the recto of the second leaf of an 8vo bifolium, with the recto of the first leaf carrying an ornately-printed covering page for items Ten and Eleven, around which the bifolium is stitched. The sixteen lines of printed text are also printed lengthwise, and boast of the firm's business as 'Auctioneers for the disposal of Libraries, Collections of Prints, Pictures, Drawings, Coins, Medals, Porcelain, Pottery, Silver, Antiquities', stating at the end that 'The original series of Sale Catalogues from the year 1744 is open for reference in the British Museum.' In manuscript: 'July 7. 1915' and 'Mrs. Turpin, in a/c with'. TEN: Printed form, completed for sale of 8 July 1915, stating that Mrs. Turpin 'is the proprietor of the following lots in the enclosed Catalogue' (lots 371 to 384). ELEVEN: Cover (torn in two), title-leaf, first two pages and two leaves carrying pp.39-42 of the Sotheby's sale catalogue for 7 and 8 July 1915. Lots 371 to 384 on pp.39 to 41 are 'Relics of Thomas Gray, the Poet, 1716-1771, and unpublished Autograph Letters from him to his favourite cousin, Mary (Molly) Antrobus, to whom he addressed his last recorded words: "Molly, I shall die." | The Letters and Relics have been transmitted to the present owner from her father, John Hobbs, F.R.C.S. to whom they came about 1840, through the marriage of a relative to a connexion of the Antrobus family.' Lot 377 made the most at £11 5s 0d: 'A. L. s. 1 p. 4to, May 3, 1759, Gloucester Street, to the same, asking her to join him in town, and referring to Bob and Dolly, her brother and sister. In a postscript he alludes to Mrs. O. (the poet's paternal aunt, Mrs. Olliffe, whom he once called "the Spawn of Cerberus upon the Dragon of Wantley"), who / is never good for anything, but when she is laid up, and can do nothing: as she recovers, she recovers her Tantrums, etc.'.
Verlag: London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1867., 1867
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
4to. pp. xvi, 415, [1]. with half-title. 4 mounted albumen prints, the frontis. portrait of Gray from a painting, the other 3 of Eton, which are oval, from nature. decorative ornaments, initials & title vignette. printer's device at end. full calf by Riviere, spine richly gilt, gilt borders on covers, gilt edges & inside dentelles (front cover spotted, some light wear, a few leaves lightly foxed). Presentation leaf, inscribed by Headmaster James Hornby of Eton College to a graduating student, dated 1871. Second Edition (first: 1863). Copies of both of these photographically illustrated editions of 1863 and 1867 printed at the Chiswick press were frequently presented as parting gifts to graduating Etonians, as here.
Verlag: Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, et al., 1807., London:, 1807
Anbieter: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Schweiz
Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. Third edition. Two volumes. 8vo. 316; 324 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece by Anker Smith after E. F. Burney. Contemporary full mottled calf decorated in gilt, spine decorated in gilt with black calf spine labels lettered in gilt, single solid gilt roll to edges, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; rebacked with original spines laid down, spines worn with some losses, worn. Housed in terra cotta cloth slipcase; small sticker applied to top panel. Very good. With two lovely fore-edge paintings painted by Helen R. Haywood: Volume I depicting "Brough Castle", and Volume II depicting a portrait of " [Thomas] Gray" and "Stoke Poges Church. " With Haywood's distinctive light brown manuscript ink titles. Painted circa mid-20th century, ca 1933-1948. Most of Haywood's fore-edge paintings were issued with cloth slip-cases. PROVENANCE: Christie's (1989, sale 6982, lot 206) âÂÂ" Randall J. Moskovitz (1989). From the Estate of Randall J. Moskovitz, MD, Memphis, Tennessee. REFERENCES: Weber, Jeff, Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders, pp. 171-172.
Anbieter: Antiquariat Michael Eschmann, Groß-Gerau, Deutschland
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Verlag: (about 1800)., 1800
Anbieter: EOS Buchantiquariat Benz, Zürich, Schweiz
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Copper engraving. Picture size: 10,5 x 6,3 cm. Leaf size: 12,2 x 7,5 cm. Browend. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +.
Anbieter: Antiquariat Michael Eschmann, Groß-Gerau, Deutschland
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Verlag: Lemierre, Paris, 1798
Anbieter: Libreria Antiquaria Giulio Cesare di Daniele Corradi, Roma, ROMA, Italien
p.pelle con tass coeva. Piccoli naturali difetti alla copertina XII + 173 + (2) p. 210x135 mm.
Verlag: O.J. (um 1775), 1775
Anbieter: EOS Buchantiquariat Benz, Zürich, Schweiz
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Radierung von James Basire nach William Mason (1724-1797) engl. Bildnismaler und Zeichner (Dilettant). Bildgrösse: 20 x 16.5 cm. Blattgrösse: 25.9 x 20.6 cm. Mason, William (1724-1797): Engl. Bildnismaler und Zeichner (Dilettant).- Angestaubt. Mit Knickfalt in der oberen Hälfte des Blattes. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +.
Verlag: (London, Mason, 1778)., 1778
Anbieter: EOS Buchantiquariat Benz, Zürich, Schweiz
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Etching by William Doughty. Picture size: 16 x 10 cm. Leaf size: 22,5 x 14,5 cm. Thieme/Becker 9, 513. Frontispiece of the poems, edition 1778 published by Mason in London. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +.
Verlag: London. Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; J. Walker; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; J. Murray; and J. Booker; at the Union Printing-Office, St. John's Square, by W. Wilson. 1807, 1807
Anbieter: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Kanada
vo, 21cm, in 2 volumes, xi, [1],316 & ; vi,322, ix-x, vii-viii, xiii, [1], xi-xii, 323-324pp., volume I has frontis portrait of Gray by E.F. Burney (1760-1848), engraved by Anker Smith (1759-1819), in contemporary full tan calf, gilt ruled raised bands, full gilt decorations and decorated borders in the panels, double red and black crushed morocco labels, gilt ruled borders and blind tooling roll decorations on the boards, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges, with unusually large armorial bookplate of Anthony Littledale on front paste-downs; ownership signature of Beatrice Littledale, dated 1877, on front fly of both volumes; The title-page indicates "The third edition, carefully corrected." W[iliam] Mason (1725-1797) who was Gray's friend and literary executor, a fine set in attractive contemporary fine binding (cgc). Thomas Gray was born in London and educated at Eton and Cambridge. He wrote poetry, essays and letters, but spent most of his life as a classics scholar and professor at Cambridge. His best-known poem, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard (1750) has been required reading for generations of English literature students, its most famous line being "The paths of glory lead but to the grave ". It is said that when James Wolfe was preparing for the assault on Quebec, he had the small book in his pocket and read the poem to his troops, commenting: " Gentlemen, 1 would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow. " Wolfe's own copy of the 1784 edition, given to him before he left on the Quebec expedition by his fiancâe, Kathleen Lowther and annotated by him, is in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library of the University of Toronto. It was acquired by the Library in 1988 as its seven-millionth volume. The Littledale family, descendants of the Pudsey family, lived at Bolton Hall, Lancs. for several generations; Beatrice Littledale (1859-1930) was the daughter of Henry Anthony Littledale (1810-1859) and Mary Elizabeth Armytage (1822-1897).