An elegy written in a country church yard / by Thomas Gray ; the text of the first quarto with the variants of the mss. & of the early editions (1751-71) ; a bibliographical & historical introduction & appendices of General Wolfe & The 'Elegy' & The locality of the churchytard by Francis Giffin Stokes, Sometime Postmaster of Merton College.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.

Contributor:

Stokes, Francis Griffin.

Standardized Title:

Elegy written in a country churchyard

Language:

English

Physical Description:

98 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Gray's Elegy.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, 1929.

Notes:

Half-title: Gray's 'Elegy'.

Includes facsimile of original t.-p.

Bibliography of the mss. and of all editions of the poem published during 1751-71, inclusive: p. [21]-61.

Appendices: A. General Wolfe and the 'Elegy' -- B. The locality of the churchyard: p. [81]-91.

Head-piece; initials.

Facsimile of 3rd edition, 1751, p. ii: p. [93].

Limited edition. 750 copies printed in Great Britain at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, and sold by Humphrey Milford, Publisher to the University of Oxford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

This copy not numbered.

OCLC:

2272319