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Lot 170A

Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021 10:00AM CT
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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

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