Poems by Gray Thomas: Signed (38 results)

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 87 pages Location: Signed case.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With the Eton College dedication page signed by Harold Donaldson Patricio Rankin And Claudius Aurilius Elliott, and dated 1946. Bound in the original full vellum with the gilt Eton crest to upper cover and top edges gilt. Light handling marks to covers; otherwise a Fine copy. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book measures 26x20cm, 87pp. Signed by Claude Elliott. Bound in original publishers full vellum, with gilt title lettering and emblem. Binding with minor shelf wear, scuffed corners. Binding in very good clean condition. Internally pages clean, near fine. A very good clean copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardback. Condition: Very good copy. Hardback. Bound for Eton college with page in Latin awarding the book to John Comyn Lyall and signed by the master Claude Elliott and dated partly by hand as 1954. Bound in cream with Eton College crest to front in gilt. Bevelled boards. Poems include Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Attractive typeface on good quality paper with wide margins. Cream boards are slightly tanned. Light foxing to endpapers and prelims. Pages are uncut. Text is crisp. Very good copy.…

First Edition. Presntation copy [these were presented to students leaving Eton I believe]. This to the Hon. Philip Astor - signed by the then Master of Eton , Michael McCrum. VG in the original glassine wrapper which is a little age toned and frayed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. An Eton College leaving book from the Headmaster, Cyril Alington, to Kennet R. Johnstone in ink to full page presentation plate with the text 'Hunc Librum C Petro F Fleetwood-Hesketh ab etona discedenti dono dedit.Abington Magister Informator Etonae AD MCMXXI viii, 87 p. ; 26 cm. Presuming first edition status. Cream vellum bound cover, with gilt spine titles, and gilt crest in centre of front board, a little dust marked, but a firm and tight copy, clean internally. Bookplate of previous owner a little removed 'James Stevenson'. Signed by Author(s). …

4to, viii, 87pp + colophon leaf, with printed presentation leaf in Latin, half-title, t.e.g., orig. full vellum gilt with the Eton College coat of arms blocked in gilt to centre of upper cover. A VG+ clean copy. The presentation leaf is inscribed in Latin to "Antonio M. Baerlein".

1st edition. Etonian presentation copy privately printed at the Riccardi Press for Eton College. Presented for Clive Herbert Wilson. Finely found in full vellum. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 87p; 26cm. Subjects: 1701-1800. Odes, English; Early works to 1800. Genre: Poetry. Collections. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Etonian presentation copy privately printed at the Riccardi Press for Eton College. Presented for Edwardo Norman Butler, includes his bookplate. Finely found in full vellum. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 87p; 26cm. Subjects: 1701-1800. Odes, English; Early works to 1800. Genre: Poetry. Collections. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Etonian presentation copy privately printed at the Riccardi Press for Eton College. Presented for Johanni Francisco Ford. Finely found in full vellum. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 87p; 26cm. Subjects: 1701-1800. Odes, English; Early works to 1800. Genre: Poetry. Collections. 1 Kg. …

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. xvi, 415 p. 19 cm. Albumen frontispiece portrait of Gray and 3 mounted albumen prints (Woodbury) of Eton College, a country churchyard, and manor house. Signed full leather Riviere binding. All edges gilt, gilt-tooled borders, marbled endpapers. Worn corners, some scratches to covers, circular mark on rear board, chipped spine label. Name clipped from half-title. Presentation page for a school prize at Eton with names Cecilio Aylmer Porter and Jacobus J. Hornsby, 1881. Minor foxing. Contains the famous Elegy written in a Country Church-yard as well as the disturbing Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat. Riviere was a London bookbinder of Huguenot descent who headed the leading bookbinding firm of his day, commissioned by Queen Victoria as well as leading bibliophiles.…

Condition: Good. Arnold's English Texts. Edited by Arthur Johnston. 8vo. 222 pp. Very good, in good dust jacket, signed by Mr. Johnston on end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Limitation not stated. Printed for private distribution by Eton College, UK. A Near Fine copy in full vellum, spine gilt on maroon panel, school coat of arms on front, without jacket as issued. Boards slightly bowed. Top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edge untrimmed. 87pp. The presentation page before the text, is hand-annotated and dated 1939 to Thomas Antonio Keith Elliott (student) by Claudius Aurelius Elliott (Headmaster of Eton College 1933-1949), Thomas Keith Elliott [1921-1976] would later go on to diplomatic service (China, Greece, Hong Kong, Finland & Israel). Contents include Gray's 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.' Q15366.…

1st edition. Etonian presentation copy privately printed at the Riccardi Press for Eton College. Presented for Clive Herbert Wilson. Finely found in full vellum. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 87p; 26cm. Subjects: 1701-1800. Odes, English; Early works to 1800. Genre: Poetry. Collections. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Etonian presentation copy privately printed at the Riccardi Press for Eton College. Presented for Johanni Francisco Ford. Finely found in full vellum. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 87p; 26cm. Subjects: 1701-1800. Odes, English; Early works to 1800. Genre: Poetry. Collections. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Etonian presentation copy privately printed at the Riccardi Press for Eton College. Presented for Edwardo Norman Butler, includes his bookplate. Finely found in full vellum. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 87p; 26cm. Subjects: 1701-1800. Odes, English; Early works to 1800. Genre: Poetry. Collections. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Eton UK: Eton College, 1920. Poems of Thomas Gray privately published for Eton college 1920 though someone has put vii in ink after the Roman numerals on presentation page so this may have been given to someone in 1927. Signed by two masters of Eton College in the presentation box on the presentation details page printed by C T Jacobi in the Riccardi Press fount of the Medici society ltd.Contains 89 pages plus some blank pages at end. Pages are in clean condition, outer full vellum boards slightly discoloured from age and slightly bowed but still sound and attractive binding with gold embossed shield of Eton on front. A nice example of this book SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Signed by Masters Eton College. First Edition. Decorative Vellum. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover.…

Original Cream Cloth Hardback. Condition: Signed Eton Presentation Copy. No Jacket. Eton Edition Signed. viii+89 pp., printed on cream laid paper, fine crested case, excellent copy Size: 4to. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Xii + [96] pp. Vellum binding w/gilt lettering on spine & Eton College shield on front cover. Light blue marbled endpapers. Top Edge Gilt. Boards slightly sprung, paper minorly tanned due to age. Good/Very Good (-)"Privately Printed for Eton College in the Riccardi Press Fount of The Medici Society Limited, VII Grafton Street, London, E. MCMXXVIII" Copy of Coleridge E. Hills. Signed by Hills, as well as Cyril Abington (master instructor [i.e. Headmaster]). Inscription dated 1930.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 108 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good minus. NO. 1946 Etonian presentation copy privately printed at the Riccardi Press for Eton College. Hardcover Good minus condition with foxing to pages, gilt to top edges. Signatures to the the presentation box on the presentation details. Discolouration and stains to covers.Spine slightly bent. U5B39. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original full vellum covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt insignia to the upper panel, top edge gilt, fore and lower page edges untrimmed, marble end papers. Quarto 10½'' x 8''. Contains [xvi] 87 [i] printed pages of text. From the library of Captain Roderic Miles Doughty Thesiger [1915-2005], brother of Wilfred Patrick Thesiger [1910-2003] with the Eton College Latin dedication page SIGNED by Roderic Miles Doughty Thesiger and Claudius Aurelius Elliott. The boards are slightly sprung, minor tanning to the paper and in Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES. …

PRINTED FOR ETON COLLEGE IN THE RICCARDI PRESS FOUNT OF THE MEDICI SOCIETY. PP. 85, FULL VELLUM (GRUBBY), SIGNED BY THE HEAD (CYRIL ALINGTON) AND DEDICATED TO RICCARDO BOYLE (OR DICKY BOYLE IF YOU WENT TO A COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL). ENDPAPERS FOXED, OTHERWISE VERY GOOD AND TIGHT.

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. 28.5 x 18.5 cm. xiv 164pp. Illustrated. Signed prize binding by R. Ingalton Drake. Bound into full tan calf, gilt embellishments, 5 raised leather bands, black leather spine label. AEG. Marble endpapers. Some scattered foxing. There is a dark stain to the back cover. Binding is tight.…

Condition: Very Good. Hardback. Small quarto. xxxvi, 168pp. Full leather with gilt titles to black leather spine label, gilt decorated spine, borders and dentelles, gilt crest to boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Covers with some slight rubbing, marking and fading, lower edge of contents with slight signs of damp, more noticeable on the plates, occasional scattered foxing, otherwise very good. Eton presentation plate signed by Edmund Warre. With tipped-in frontis portrait and 3 plates.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Privately printed collection of credited writer and scholar Thomas Gray's poetry for Eton College. In full vellum, signed by headmaster Cyril Alington. Bound in full vellum with the Eton College crest to the front board.Printed privately as a presentation volume for students.This copy is signed by the headmaster Cyril Alington.A collection of poems from popular English poet and Eton alumnus Thomas Gray. Includes works such as "Ode on the Spring", "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", a fragment from "Agrippina" and four translations into English verse.Although only publishing 13 poems in his lifetime, Gray was a critical figure in eighteenth century literature, paving the way for the second generation of Romantic poets. Wordsworth famously critiqued Gray's "Sonnet on the Death of Richard West" in the preface to the 1798 Lyrical Ballads. Bound in full vellum. Externally, very smart with moderate marking to front and back boards. Closed tear to front free endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages suffer from slight spotting towards the front and back of the book, otherwise bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

PRIZE BINDING. PRINTED FOR ETON COLLEGE IN THE RICCARDI PRESS FOUNT OF THE MEDICI SOCIETY. PP. 85, FULL VELLUM, T.E.G., SIGNED BY THE HEAD AND DEDICATED TO CREWE HUMPHREY LUMLEY-SMITH. VERY GOOD AND TIGHT.

Gr.-8vo. XIV, 164, (2)pp. With printed presentation leaf, frontispiece, and 3 engr. plates. Contemp. full polished calf, richly gilt, gilt-stamped armorial plate to both covers, a.e.g. (signed: Spottiswoode Binders). Fine copy.

[Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING, ex libris Sir Martin Gilliat. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[4] viii; 87 [9]. With two black and white plates from another book, showing Gray's Summer House and Stoke Poges Church, loosely inserted. Bound in full vellum, with gilt titles to spine, the arms of Eton College stamped to upper, and machine-marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. A school leavers gift, inscribed from Cyril Alington, Head Master of Eton College, to Martin Gilliat, dated 1931. Some spotting to preliminaries and final leaves. Some minor marks to binding. Boards bowed, as usual with vellum. Near fine. Gilliat was a decorated career-soldier who was captured at Dunkirk in 1940, spending much of the Second World War at Colditz Castle. After the war he served under Mountbatten in India, and under Slim in Australia, before spending 37 years as the private secretary to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother from 1956. Signed.…

1st edition. Provenance; Eton presentation copy with signed bookplate. Full calf, armorial motif to the front panel with inner gilt-blocked dentelle; spine with raised bands, and gilt-blocked decorations in the compartments. Marbled end-papers. Boards and spine dust-toned, bumped and rubbed as with age (with some tears). Physical description; xiv, 164 pages : plates; portrait ; 29 cm. Subjects; Odes, English ; Early works to 1800. Gray, Thomas 1716-1771. Gray, Thomas poetry. Odes, epitaphs, elegy, and sonnets, 18th century. 1 Kg.…

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.…