Thomas Gray — Poems by Thomas Gray

London, Chiswick Press, 1887. Leather. A finely bound Eton College prize copy of Thomas Gray"s poetry by Riviere & Son, illustrated with engraved plates. Bound in signed full armorial calf by Riviere and Son, with gilt detailing to the boards and dentelles. An Eton College prize copy of Thomas Gray"s poetry, with the laid-in Eton prize leaf dated 1893.Illustrated with a frontispiece and three engraved plates for Ode on the Spring, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, and Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, plus a brief biography by the Hon. Horace Walpole. Collated, complete.Includes Gray"s original poems alongside English and Latin verse translations from Petrarch, the Anthologia Græca, and others.Thomas Gray (1716–1771) was an English poet and scholar, best known for Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751), one of the most famous poems of the 18th century. Bound in a full calf binding by Riviere. Externally, very smart. The odd slight handling mark to boards. The odd slight scratch to boards, more so to rear board. Minor rubbing and bumping to extremities. School Prize inscription to the Eton prize sheet bound in with the volume, dated 1893. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with scattered spotting to fore edges of first and last few leaves and the odd spot throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Charles W. Radclyffe. Very Good .