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Shelfmark

Ie10.5.20(06)

Author

Gray, Thomas, 1716 - 1771

Uniform title

[Elegy written in a country churchyard. Latin and English]

Title

Elegeia in cematerio rustico / Anglicè scripta à Thomâ Graio. Latinè reddidit Jacobus Pycroft, B.A., E Coll. Trin. Oxon.

Publication, distribution, etc.

Londini : E typograheo Nathl. Steevens, 1878.

Physical description

[3], 10, 10, [1] p. ; 23 cm.

Language

Parallel Latin and English texts.

Note

Cover title.

Note

Opposite pages bear duplicate numbering.

Provenance

Eton College Library ink stamp.

Provenance

Ms. inscription: "The Reverend C. L. Dodgson Ch:Ch:Coll, Oxford. with the author's compliments".

Provenance

Author's corrections in ms. and printed on cancel slips (pasted in).

Provenance

Ink stamp of F. Madan, Oxford.

Binding

Original wrappers; stitched gathering.

Copy-specific note

Housed inside display album of other printed and manuscript items relating to Gray; album has dark green leather half-binding with marbled paper covered boards and gilt decoration, with spine and cover title: 'Gray's Ode on a distant prospect'.

Copy-specific note

Previously Az.3.1.6

Copy-specific note

Accompanying catalogue description suggests this is a unique trial copy; the British Library has an edition of the same text, printed in Brighton, and dated 1880.

Subject

Cemeteries Poetry.

Subject

Landscapes Poetry.

Added entry--name

Pycroft, James, 1813 - 1895 translator.

Added entry--name

Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832 - 1898 former owner.

Added entry--name

Madan, Falconer, 1851 - 1935 former owner.

Added entry--place

England London.

Language code

eng lat eng

Identifier

B44853
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