Shelfmark
Be.5.20(01) (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Iaa2.5.29(02) (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Iaa2.5.31 (Copy 3)
Author
Uniform title
[Elegy written in a country churchyard. English & Latin]
Title
Elegia scripta in coemeterio rustico Latinè reddita.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cantabrigiæ : Typis Academicis excudebat J. Bentham. Prostant venales apud R. Matthews; J. Rivington, A. Millar, T. Payne, Londini; J. Fletcher, Oxon., 1762.
Physical description
[4], 15, [1] p ; 4to.
Note
Anonymous author = Thomas Gray.
Note
Text in Latin and English.
Note
Latin translation of "Elegy written in a country churchyard" by Christopher Anstey (BL).
Note
Half-title.
Note
[Copy 1] Extensive ms. corrections taken from 1778 edition.
Note
X.
With note
[Copy 1] [Bound with:] Four other items printed in England in the 1760s.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T32489
Provenance
[Copy 1] Eton bookplate recording donation to Eton by Mr. Justice Mackinnon, Oct. 1929.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Armorial bookplate of Edward Cooper.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Armorial bookplate of F. Manley Sims, with ink library stamp: "Manley Sims Eton Collection".
Provenance
[Copy 2] Eton College Library booklabel.
Provenance
[Copy 3] Ms. inscription of A. Storer [Anthony Storer], and his ms. amendments to the half-title.
Provenance
[Copy 3] Eton College Library bookplate.
Binding
[Copy 1] ?20th century blind-stamped, panelled calf.
Binding
[Copy 2] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
Binding
[Copy 3] ?18th century cream vellum covered by cream paper; title stamped in black on spine; bound by Spottiswoode & Co.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Previously Bdd.7.33(01).
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Bound in a volume of pamphlets.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Ink stamp of Hatchards.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Bound with the title-page of 'Poems, consisting of the following pieces, viz. I. Ode written upon the death of Mr. Gray ...' by the Earl of Carlisle, second ed. (ESTC T42611).
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Previously Br.I.19
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Spine title: "Earl of Carlisle - Gray".
Added entry--name
Anstey, Christopher, 1724 - 1805 translator.
Added entry--name
Bentham, Joseph, 1594? - 1671 printer.
Added entry--name
Matthews, R. bookseller.
Added entry--name
Rivington, James, 1724 - 1802 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Millar, A bookseller.
Added entry--name
Payne, Thomas, 1719 - 1799 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Fletcher, James, 1710 - 1795 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Manley Sims, F. former owner.
Added entry--name
Storer, Anthony Morris, 1746 - 1799 former owner.
Added entry--name
Hatchards binder.
Added entry--name
Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd. binder.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Language code
eng lat eng
Identifier
B12227