Elegy by Gray Thomas: Signed (29 results)

Sewn pamphlet. Condition: Good. 1st. A lovely little pamphlet in the Saint George Series published by Alexander Moring Limited. This particular edition is a hand-sewn pamphlet on heavy rag paper. The front has information about the publisher and a lovely woodcut print of a shield with the St. George emblem and three roses. The buyer of this pamphlet signed the cover with a fountain pen showing it was acquired at Glastonbury, May 22, 1928, at the Tribunal House. The pamphlet is generously illustrated with woodcuts that are both artistically accomplished and charming. Slight scuff to back cover, spine shows one thread snapped but the remaining thread holds the book together very well. We are a small indie bookstore in scenic Vermont, specializing in children's, YA, and science fiction. Please consider buying from us and supporting indie bookstores and our bookstore cat, Wesley. Honor Howard-Mercer (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4to. Cloth stamped in silver. 1/1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This one has the number (62) crossed out and "Office Copy" written in. Spine sunned, as usual, else very good in matching cloth slipcase. Agnes Miller Parker (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Condition: Corners bumped, vg. Quarto. 75p. Illustrated with 8 tipped-in plates by G. F. Nichols, each text page with large pictorial frames in green signed "RJR". Bound in sage green cloth with stylized titles and large scene on the upper cover in black, green, blue, gray, and yellow. Pictorial endpapers also by "RJR".…

Full Leather. Condition: G+. No Jacket. Limited. 10 pp+2, text and illustrations are printed on one side of a page, all 10 engravings are signed by the illustrator, this is 1 copy of 469, the plates were destroyed, inked inscription in front and the spine has some darkening and slight from age(?), a nice solid copy. Arthur N. MacDonald (illustrator). By Illustrator.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Slipcase. First Ediiton Thus. Full Brown Polished Calf, Git. One Of 469 Copies Printed For Members Of The Society. A Fine Copy, Gilt Brilliant, No Marks, Signed By Both Macdonald And, On All Illustrations, By Bicknell. In Near Fine Original Inner Slipcase, 1/2" Split Al One Lower Edge Adjacent To Open End, And In Near Fine Original Brown Cloth Outer Slipcase With Printed Spine Label Which Is Somewhat Browned. The Slipcases Are Rare Survivals. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Condition: Sehr gut. Groß-8°. 23,5 x 18 cm. 75 Seiten. 18 Tafeln. Handeinband von Gijs Wertel in schwarzem Ganzleder mit grauer Titelprägung und blindgeprägter Deckelillustration im passenden handgearbeiteten Pappschuber mit Lederkanten. 1. Auflage. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. Mit Frontispiz und 7 weiteren Tafeln in Schwarz-Weiß mit Illustrationen von John Vassos. Handeinband des niederländischen Buchbindermeisters Gijs Wortel mit blindgeprägtem Signet auf Innenkante des Vorderdeckels. Einband nur minimal berieben. Seiten leicht gebräunt und sehr vereinzelt leicht stockfleckig. Sehr gutes Exemplar. Hand binding by Gijs Wortel in full black morocco with grey-stamped title and blind-tooled cover illustration, housed in a matching handcrafted slipcase of board with leather edges. First edition. English-language issue. With frontispiece and 7 further black-and-white plates with illustrations by John Vassos. Hand binding by the Dutch master bookbinder Gijs Wortel with blind-stamped binder's mark on the inner edge of the front cover. Binding only minimally rubbed. Pages lightly darkened and with very occasional light foxing. Fine copy.…

Hard cover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Signed and numbered. Includes slip case. The cover is shelf worn on the top and bottom edges with the spine being tanned, but not affecting legibility. Binding is secure and pages are clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Etchings by W.H.W. Bicknell; title page engraved by Arthur N. MacDonald, 10.5 x 7", full gilt-ruled leather; teg, unpaginated, covers worn, extremities chipping, pp toned, but still a decent copy. TITLE PAGE ILLUS. AND OTHER ILLUS. SIGNED IN PENCIL BY ARTISTS, Arthur N. MacDonald and W.H.W. Bicknell.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist, this being #1314. 7.25 x 10.25 in. xv + 64pp., with 30 full page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Original dark gray cloth over boards, with silver stamped title on spine and an embossed cover design also stamped in silver; housed in the publisher's dark gray cloth slipcase. A Very Good copy, spine sun faded, and a touch of minor wear to the cloth; interior is fine; slipcase has some light wear. Signed by Artist.…

Hardcover. Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in forest green buckram with a relief design on the front cover stamped in silver, 92 pages. Superbly illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker sketched in the very same country church-yard that inspired the poem. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. A beautiful book. Very slight foxing to endpapers. Covers a little rubbed. Very Good to Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Agnes Miller Parker (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Limited. Introduction by Sir Hugh Walpole. Decorated with wood-engravings sketched by Agnes Miller Parker. Title-page vignette, 72pp., tall slim 8vo, pictorial, blind-stamped cloth, silver title on spine, cloth slipcase. London: The Limited Editions Club, 1938. Near Fine. Limited Edition, one of 1500 copies signed by the artist. Agnes Miller Parker (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. In deep blue cloth over ivory cloth boards, gilt upper cover titling, 4to, 77pp. Illustrated by John Vassos. Signed and dated by John Vassos on free-front endpaper. (some toning and browning to cloth, spine titling dulled, browning at inner hinges). Illustrated by John Vassos (illustrator).…

Paper-covered Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Original paper covered boards - mellowed formerly white cover with Oxford panel drawn on. Boards a little darkened. Backstrip missing. With frontis and vignette title, plus letterpress title page. Clean throughout. This volume is dedicated by the author and philologist Dr John Jamieson "the the young ladies of Bemersyde from their faithful servant and friend John Jamieson". Rare with original author's inscription. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st thus. FINE book, FINE DJ. Copy # 1267. Agnes Miller Park illus & signed. Hugh Walpole intro. FINE book, in FINE clear DJ, NEAR FINE slipcase. MINT contents. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Limited Edition of 498 copies. First edition, Limited to 469 copies printed for members only, each plate signed by the artists in pencil below the engravings. Hard cover, small 4to., in full calf blocked with gold double rules and the title vertically down the spine. Included in the original double slipcase with applied printed paper label. 32 (unnumbered) pages printed on a cream japon-like parchment, with the Society's logo in blue to prelims, followed by facing pages with frontispiece illustration of a churchyard and the pictorial title engraved within an architectural frame, finely detailed with four landscape vignettes and alternating neoclassical scrolls. "Entire text engraved on copper, with nine etchings, artist signed, and two supplementary pages of printed textual matter." (as in bibliography)**CONDITION: Very Good Plus, or better. A few small spots to boards, (on rear especially). Handsewn binding is a tad loose. Slipcase about Near Fine with only a bit of abrasion at top front edge, as seen.**The Bibliophile Society was founded in Boston in 1901. As described in their charter: ".for the purpose of the study and promotion of the arts pertaining to fine book making and illustrating, and to the occasional publication of of specially designed and illustrated books for the distribution among it's members at a minimum cost of production." **Englishman Thomas Gray's famous poem "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," was written in 1751. Boston-born printmaker William Harry Warren Bicknell (1860-1947) trained at The Boston Museum School of Fine Arts under Otto Grundman and Frederick Crowninshield. His work with the Bibliophile Society included etchings for the 1903 Howard Pyle-illustrated "The Bibliomaniac." He died in Provincetown. (Delaware Art Museum) REF: "The Thirteenth Year Book," (Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1914) p. 94. Rare in the slipcase. Each plate signed by artists W.H.H. Bicknell or Arthur N.Macdonald. Bicknell, W. H. W. (painter, designer, etcher); Macdonald, Arthur N. (engr.) (illustrator). Book.…

Leather. Condition: Fine. Liimited Edition. nine etchings from copper plates engraved by Arthur N. Macdonald and designed and etched by W. H. W. Bicknell, each illustration is sSgned and the plates have been destroyed, the book is bound in finely polished brown calf and trimmed in gilt. Signed by Artist and Translato.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Well preserved copy of this sumptuous edition illustrated by Alice Miller Parker. This is copy #93 of 1500, signed by Parker. Plastic wrapper still intact, spine is sunned, slipcase is very good. With 32 full page wood engravings this may be one of my favorite Limited Editions club books. Agnes Miller Parker (illustrator). Signed.…

First Edition. SIGNED and limited, with launch invitation and original receipt. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper in case. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: [26p] ill 27cm; chiefly illustrated. Notes: Limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is number 18. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in forest green buckram with a relief design stamped in silver on the front cover, 92 pages. Beautifully illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker sketched in the very same country church-yard that inspired the poem. Copy #166 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Small tape stains to endpapers; spine a little sunned. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Agnes Miller Parker (illustrator).…

First Edition. SIGNED and limited, with launch invitation and original receipt. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper in case. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: [26p] ill 27cm; chiefly illustrated. Notes: Limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is number 18. 1 Kg. …

8vo. full crushed red morocco by J. B. Hawes, Cambridge with the original unprinted wrappers bound in, five raised bands, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. (17) pages. First edition thus. Some wear to spine and hinges. A small privately printed edition of Gray's Elegy printed with a concurrent Latin translation by the foremost English latinist, Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1819-1895). This is a presentation copy from the translator to John Parry of Trinity College, with Parry's bookplate on the front pastedown. full crushed red morocco by J. B. Hawes, Cambridge with the original unprinted wrappers bound in, five raised bands, marbled pastedowns and endpapers.…

Hardcover. Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in forest green buckram with a relief design stamped in silver on the front cover, 92 pages. Beautifully illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker sketched in the very same country church-yard that inspired the poem. Copy #65 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Very slight foxing to endpapers. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Agnes Miller Parker (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in forest green buckram with a relief design stamped in silver on the front cover, 92 pages. Beautifully illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker sketched in the very same country church-yard that inspired the poem. Copy #710 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Spine a little sunned otherwise Fine in a Fine slipcase. Agnes Miller Parker (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. The Limited Editions Club at the Raven Press, Near Fine hardcover, in Very Good clear dustjacket, in Very Good slipcase. Spine has slight sunfading, clear dustjacket has some chips at top edge of spine area, slipcase starting to have areas of cloth separation from backing. Of the 1500 copies printed, this one is numbered 330 and is SIGNED by Agnes Miller Park in pen. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. WARMLY, LENGTHILY INSCRIBED BY JOHN VASSOS TO HIS FRIENDS AND CAPE COD NEIGHBORS BLANCH AND STAN LOOMIS ("DEATH HAS A FASCINATION FOR MOST OF US, AND TO ME IT HAS BEEN A SUBJECT RICH FOR PICTORIAL EXPRESSION. MAYBE THERE IS SOMETHING BEYOND."). The 1931 1st thus, the first pairing of Thomas Gray's immortal text with John Vassos' chilling, first-rate illustrations. Solid and VG in its duotone cloth, with mild soiling and spotting along the panels. Octavo, the verse of Thomas Gray, counterbalanced by the dark, ethereal images of John Vassos (1898-1985). John Vassos) (illustrator). Signed.…

Sm. 4to. 27.5 x 20cm. Title page + ded. leaf in red and black + Contents + xviii etched plates all on India paper. From the Library of Jerrold Northrop Moore, ex.-libris Herbert Wilson, plate 10 with ink spots to margin, light browning, bound in gilt lettered paper mâché cream boards with decorative border, scratched and worn, some soiling and loss to spine, a.e.g. Artists include T Creswick, C. Stonhouse, R. Redgrave, Fredk. Taylor, John C. Horsley, R.J. Townsend, C.W. Cope. US$520.…

Condition: Used: Very Good. [SIGNED] London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in dark green buckram with a relief design stamped in silver on the front cover. Illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker sketched at the same country church-yard that inspired the poem. One of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Spine faded, light foxing to prelims, slipcase a bit rubbed, else very good overall condition. No marks, NOT EX-LIBRARY. (fprw).…

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 92 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1851. Text in English. This edition of Thomas Gray's famous elegy features a title vignette and engraved illustrations, with each stanza and its corresponding illustration printed on a single side of the paper. The work includes a prefatory note signed by John Martin, dated October 10, 1834. The original copy was bound in leather and included a holograph inscription to Miss Helen A. Temple from B. Frank Palmer, dated March 31, 1853. This reprint captures the elegance and depth of Gray's poetic meditation on rural life and mortality, making it a valuable addition to literary collections. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Printed on premium paper. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1839. Élégie de Thomas Gray accompagnée de versions parallèles en grec, latin, allemand, italien et français, présentées sur pages en regard. L'ouvrage se distingue par la note préfacielle signée John Martin et par sa mise en page conçue pour la comparaison des textes, ce qui en fait un volume recherché pour l'étude des traductions poétiques et de la réception d'un grand classique de la poésie anglaise. Thomas Gray's celebrated elegy presented with parallel versions in Greek, Latin, German, Italian, and French on facing pages. The volume is notable for its prefatory note signed by John Martin and for its comparative layout, making it of interest to collectors of translated poetry and to readers studying the transmission of a major English poem across several languages. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…