Poems and Letters by Thomas Gray [in Riviere binding, Eton College prize book awarded by Edward Balston in 1867]

Good; heavy wear at lower forecorners; rubbing to extremities; incipient cracks to outer surface of front hinge; scuffs to black leather title inlay on spine; general scuffs/scratches to leather; tanning to margins of covers; tarnish/soil and small areas of missing gilt from page edges; heavy foxing to pages adjacent to marbled endpapers; sparse, minor foxing to interior pages; else Fine. HINGES SOUND, SPINE STRAIGHT AND WELL ROUNDED, PAGES CLEAN AND BRIGHT EXCEPT AS NOTED. Full leather, 8.5x11 inches; xvi, 415 pp; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; elaborate gilt decorations to spine and to leather bordering the pastedowns; "Bound by Riviere" stamp on verso of flyleaf. Third free page bears printed bookplate noting "Etonae" (Latin for "at Eton") and date: "MDCCC LX" (printed) and "VII" (handwritten), and two handwritten names: "Ricardo Herbert Winsloe" (the student who received this as an prize") and Edwardus (Latin for Edward) Balston, the Master who awarded it. Balston (1817-1891) was and Assistant Master at Eton from 1840, became a Fellow in 1860, and was Head Master from 1862 to 1868, when he retired from teaching to take a series of posts in the Church. May require increased shipping price for priority and international orders. …