Shelfmark
MS 632
Author
Uniform title
[Elegy written in a country church-yard. English.]
Title
Elegy written in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : 1880?
Physical description
14 leaves ; 26 cm.
Note
Material: membrane (thick vellum) interleaved with white silk.
Note
Decoration: opening initials in gold incorporating intricate floral borders, five pages within gold and richly illuminated borders including fine watercolour landscapes scenes.
Note
On the colophon: "This manuscript Elegy, written in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray was designed, written out and illuminated by Sister Mary Gertrude Cameron for Messrs. R. Riviere & Son London. This Manuscript will not be duplicated".
Note
16 lines per full page, written in an upright semi-roman cursive script in black.
Note
White silk between pages.
Provenance
Donated to ECL by Robert Lloyd George in 2004.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Frederick S. Peck.
Binding
Contemporary green morocco; covers with outer borders of onlaid red morocco gilt strapwork forming compartments; these compartments are filled with flowers and leaves of onlaid red and black morocco; similar floral decoration on spine (with gold titling) and the turn-ins; red silk pasted on the pastedowns and first flyleaf; two additional flyleaves at the beginning and end of volume. The volume is in a blue cloth portfolio. With slipcase.
Subject
Elegiac poetry, English.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Peck, Frederick S. (Frederick Stanhope), 1868 - 1947 former owner.
Added entry--name
Riviere & Son bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B52507