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GRAY, Thomas (1716-1771). The Poems of Mr. Gray. To Which are Added Memoirs of his Life and Writings. William Mason, editor. York: A. Ward and others, 1778.
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GRAY, Thomas (1716-1771). The Poems of Mr. Gray. To Which are Added Memoirs of his Life and Writings. William Mason, editor. York: A. Ward and others, 1778.
4 volumes, 8vo (180 x 112 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece etched by Doughty; printed on thick paper. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt, board edges gilt, edges stained yellow. Provenance: "F. W." (initials on title-page); "W. B. Y." (initials on fly-leaf vol. I).
Collected edition of Gray's works. ESTC T90575.
[Laid in:] Autograph manuscript, 19th-century, in an unknown hand. A fair copy of a translation of Thomas Gray's "Latin Ode on the Monastery of the Grande Chartreuse," first published unattributed in The London Magazine, Vol. I, January-April 1825, p. 367. The translation was later published in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903, p. 382, with a note from the editor that the translation work is "not certain to be Lamb's, but probably his."
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York