Shelfmark
MS 351
Author
Title
Translation into French of Thomas Gray's The Bard, verses I.1 to I.3, and III.3 from line 135 to the end. Includes two paragraphs of commentary on the poem. Manuscript copy by Thomas Gray. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge, England? not before 1764.
Physical description
1 item : paper ; 21 x 33 cm.
Note
Title devised by cataloguer.
Note
Place of production inferred from author's biography.
Note
Date of production inferred from publication of transcribed source.
Note
Translation and commentary transcribed by Gray from 'Gazette litteraire de l'Europe', 1764, tome 3, pages 259-216. Published as part of a supplement issued on 4 November 1764, within a review of R. Evan Evans' 'Some specimens of the poetry of the antient Welsh bards', published in London in 1764 (ESTC T145881) .
Note
Found in Eton College School Library in 20th century. Transferred to Eton College Library in 1988.
Binding
Stored in a melinex sleeve within a stiff folder made by Richard Day in 1988. Boards covered in green and dark red nonpareil marbled paper boards; light brown morocco on spine; title label pasted onto front board.
Subject
Gray, Thomas, 1716 - 1771 The Bard.
Subject
Poetry England Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge
Identifier
B48738