Shelfmark
Iaa2.2.21(02)
Additional shelfmark
Sa1.6.13(04), Sa1.6.13(06) (Copy 2)
Author
Uniform title
[Elegy written in a country churchyard. Italian and English]
Title
Elegia inglese di Tommaso Gray sopra un cimitero campestre trasportata in verso italiano da Giuseppe Torelli Veronese..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Parma : nel regal palazzo co' tipi Bodoniani, MDCCXCIII [1793].
Physical description
[4], xix, [1] ; [2], x, [2] ; [2], vii, [1] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Note
Parallel English and Italian texts, followed by a second translation, 'Traduzione della stessa elegia inglese dell' abate Michele Cesarotti,' and 'Thomae Gray elegia in sepulcreto rustico conscripta latinis versibus reddita a Ioanne Costa'.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T71250
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Pictorial bookplate of Michael Wisnievsky.
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Eton College Library booklabel.
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Inscription on title-page of volume 1 of the set: 'From the editor', with Dawson Turner's initials beneath. Card catalogue record states: 'This copy of the Mathias edition was presented by the editor to Dawson Turner'. Dawson Turner (1775-1858) added the Gray letters, the Norton Nicholls account of Thomas Gray, and the travel notes. Sold at the sale of Taylor's books, 1859, lot 219.
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Inscription on flyleaf: "John Dillon 1863". Dillon added some of the manuscript introductions and many engravings to the volumes. Sold by him at auction, Sotheby's June 1869.
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Armorial bookplate of Percy Morris (1867-1927), at Eton College 1881-1884. Given to Eton College Library by Morris in 1905. Percy Morris inherited the volumes from his father John Morris (1824-1905).
Binding
[Copy 1]: 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top-edge; gilt spine title; five raised bands.
Binding
[Copy 2]: 19th century half brown morocco; blue marbled paper covered boards; five raised bands; spine title: "Gray's works".
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1]: Previous shelfmark: A.12.8
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1]: Bound with 'Poems by Mr. Gray' (Parma: Bodoni, 1793).
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2]: This item is the fourth and sixth of seven items bound in the volume. Costa's Latin translation is bound as item 4, whilst Torrelli and Cesarotti's translations are bound as item 6. The entire volume is the fifth of a five volume set. Volumes 1 to 3 are an extra-illustrated copy of the works of Thomas Gray (London, 1814) catalogued as Sa1.6.09 to Sa1.6.13. The fourth volume is largely manuscript material relating to Thomas Gray's travels, which have been catalogued as MS 413. The manuscript material in this volume is also described in the record for MS 413.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2]: Each leaf mounted onto larger sheets.
Subject
English poetry.
Subject
Elegia poetry, Italian Translations into English Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Bodoni, Giambattista, 1740 - 1813 printer.
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
Torelli, Giuseppe, 1658 - 1709 translator.
Added entry--name
Cesarotti, Michele translator.
Added entry--name
Costa, Giovanni, 1737 - 1816 translator.
Added entry--name
Turner, Dawson, 1775 - 1858 former owner.
Added entry--name
Dillon, John former owner.
Added entry--name
Morris, Percy former owner.
Added entry--place
Italy Parma.
Language code
ita eng eng
Identifier
B45013