Shelfmark
Ie10.5.20(07) (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Ibb1.3.46 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Ie10.1.02(14) (copy 3)
Author
Uniform title
[Elegy written in a country churchyard. Latin and English]
Title
Gray's Elegy written in a country churchyard : a version in Latin elegiacs / by H. L. Drake.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Oxford] : privately printed at the University Press, Oxford, 1934.
Physical description
[2], 15, [7] p. ; 21 cm.
Language
Parallel Latin and English texts.
Note
First and final leaves are blanks.
Note
Publisher's printed wrappers; stitched gathering.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Eton College Library ink stamp and book label.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Ms. inscription: "R.C. Martineau from H.L. Drake".
Provenance
[Copy 3] Ms. inscription: "Eton College Library from F D MacKinnon, 1944, bought from Blackwells"; and with tipped-in ALS from MacKinnon to [Clarence Henry Kennett] Marten dated 12 January 1944 adding this item to other translations of the Elegy given to Marten's predecessor [Henry] Broadbent.
Provenance
[Copy 3] Tipped-in ALS from the translator presenting this copy to "Professor Smith" on stationery of Pembroke College, Oxford, 11 June 1934.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] 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
[Copy 1] Previously Az.3.1.6
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Loosely inserted copy of: Leonard Whibley, 'Thomas Gray at Eton', pp. 611-623 extracted from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 225 (May 1929).
Subject
Cemeteries Poetry.
Subject
Landscapes Poetry.
Genre/Form
Elegies.
Added entry--name
Drake, H. L. translator.
Added entry--name
MacKinnon, F.D., 1871 - 1946 former owner.
Added entry--name
Oxford University Press publisher.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Language code
eng lat eng
Identifier
B44854