Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard
by Gray, Thomas; Morgan, Gwenda
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- Hardcover
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GRAY'S ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD.
Golden Cockerel Press.
Morgan, Gwenda. Gray, Thomas.
Published by Golden Cockerel Press, London (1946)
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. By Thomas Gray. Edited and with a Foreword by Christopher Sandford. Number 654 of 750 copies set in 12 pt, Caslon old Face type and printed on mould-made paper. 7.25 X 5 ins. 22 pp. Quarter blue buckram with marbled paper boards. Gilt spine titling. T.E.G., others uncut. 9 wood engravings by Gwenda Morgan, 6 full page. Sandford wrote of them: "Gwenda Morgan filled me with admiration by producing a set of engravings which, though entirely in the modern vein, proved a perfect complement to the eighteenth-century text" delightfully interpretive of village life in England and the unchanging face of the land.
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- Title
- Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard
- Author
- Gray, Thomas; Morgan, Gwenda
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Golden Cockerel Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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