Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. (1765)
GRAY, Thomas

Folio. [8] pp, 35, [4], 39-55, [1] pp., with the half-title, engraved frontispiece and plates throughout the text. A few ink blots on the blank verso of the title-page, small stain in the blank fore-margin of f1, slight marking at the head of q2, and light water staining to the margin of r1-2. Contemporary mottled calf, covers ruled and spine compartments hatched in gilt, black morocco and gilt spine label (small scuff to the upper board, corners bumped, headcaps missing).London: for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall,

Richard Bentley's "ingenious" illustrations for Thomas Gray's poems which the author felt were merely 'subordinate & explanatory to the Drawings'" (ODNB). The first edition appeared in 1753 and it was re-printed three times in the same year before this present edition. ESTC records that the only institutional copies in the U.K. are at the British Library and the National Library of Scotland. The poems include "Ode on the Spring", Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton Cathedral" and "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard".

Stock Code: EA15020