Thomas Gray; Hugh Walpole [intro.]; Agnes Miller Parker [illus.]

Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard [Limited Edition, Signed]

London: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Raven Press, 1938. Very Good + / Very Good +. Item #13343

London: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Raven Press, 1938. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 659. Octavo; publisher's pictorial blind-embossed cloth stamped in silver foil, clear celluloid dust jacket, paper-covered slipcase; xv,[1],72pp.; wood-engravings throughout. Cloth and dust jacket spine panels a shade toned, tiny loss to jacket spine, else Very Good or better in the rare original jacket. Signed by the illustrator on colophon.

Lovely edition of Gray's Elegy illustrated with wood-cuts, "the original sketches for which were made by Miss Parker in that same church-yard at Stoke Poges in which the poet brooded over his elegy" (colophon).

Price: $225.00