Shelfmark
Ie10.5.20(06)
Author
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