Shelfmark
Ls.4.50
Author
Title
Elegy written in a country church-yard / by Thomas Gray ; with an introduction by Sir Hugh Walpole ; decorated with wood-engravings sketched in the same country church-yard by Agnes Miller Parker.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for members of the Limited Editions Club at the Raven Press, 1938.
Physical description
xv, 72, [2] p. : ill. (32 wood-engravings) ; 26 cm. (8vo)
Note
With a half-title.
Note
On pp. 67-72, transcript of "Stanzas wrote in a country churchyard" reproduced from "the original MS. now preserved in the Memorial Buildings of Eton College" with footnotes.
Note
Limitation statement on final printed page: "The edition is designed by Robert Ashwin Maynard and printed by him at the Raven Press at Alperton, Middlesex. There are fifteen hundred copies made for members of the Limited Editions Club, this being copy number ... and it is signed by A. Miller Parker." (Copy number and signature in manuscript.)
Note
"Printed on Portal handmade paper" -- bookseller's advertisement.
Note
Publisher's dark brown buckram case binding. Upper cover embossed with in blind and silver with night-time scene of Gray's tomb at Stoke Poges; outer border of a silver frame. Spine flat, French-grooved, with silver titling ("Elegy written in a country church-yard"). Endpapers comprising a single bifolium of plain white paper (pastedown and free flyleaf). Housed in publisher's case dark blue buckram case with silver titling as on book.
Provenance
Bookseller's printed particulars loosely inserted; price on upper flyleaf recto. Another code (of the same seller?) on lower flyleaf verso.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy is no. 1414.
Subject
Stoke Poges (England)
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Parker, Agnes Miller, 1895 - 1980 illustrator.
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Maynard, Robert Ashwin designer.
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Limited Editions Club. publisher.
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Raven Press printer.
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United States New York.
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England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50906