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Poems / by Mr. Gray.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3500 .A1 1793
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
- Gray, Thomas.
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- Fine bindings.
- Penn Provenance:
- Ducos-Gussago (former owner) (stamp)
- Calabi, Eugenio (donor)
- Calabi, Giuliana (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, xxvi, 107 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 30 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Gray's poems PU
- Place of Publication:
- Parma : Printed by Bodoni, MDCCXCIII [1793]
- Contents:
- A short account of the life and writings of Mr. Gray
- - The last will and testament of Mr. Thomas Gray
- Ode on the spring
- Ode on the death of a favourite cat
- Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College
- A long story
- Ode to adversity
- The progress of Poesy, a Pindaric ode
- The bard, a Pindaric ode
- The fatal sisters, from the Norse-tongue
- The descent of Odin, from the Norse-tongue
- The triumphs of Owen, a fragment
- Ode for music, performed in the Senate-House
- Epitaph
- Elegy written in a country church-yard.
- Notes:
- "A short account of the life and writings of Mr. Gray," p. [1]-xvii; "The last will and testament of Mr. Thomas Gray," p. [xix]-xxvi.
- Large paper edition; ESTC records variant with 109 p. and printed on ordinary paper (24-26 cm.) Cf. ESTC N21107.
- First leaf and leaf following p. xxxvi are blank.
- With half-titles before each poem.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Dr. Eugenio Calabi and Giuliana Calabi.
- Giuseppe Calabi Collection copy has bookplate: G. Calabi 1953.
- Giuseppe Calabi Collection copy bound in full mottled leather with marbled endpapers and gilt-tooled turn-ins; triple ruled fillet border on boards with floral ornament in all 4 corners of panel; papers; all edges gilt; ink provenance stamp on front pastedown reads: Ducos-Gussago.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, N21109
- Brooks, H. C. Compendiosa bibliografia di edizioni Bodoniane. Florence, 1927, 500
- OCLC:
- 3664168
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