Lot 551
  • 551

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GRAY, THOMAS. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD, 1946, 1/80 COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • Gray's Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard with a foreword by Christopher Sandford and Eight Engravings by Gwenda Morgan. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946
  • paper
8vo, wood-engraved frontispiece and five illustrations by Morgan, NO.36 OF 80 COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND (out of a total edition of 750), original pictorial green morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, upper cover decorated with an urn, lower cover with a harp, top edge gilt, slipcase

Provenance

J. Philip Jacobs, the sale of his library at Sotheby's, 17 November 1999, lot 287

Literature

Cockalorum 172

Condition

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