Description

• With A Biographical Sketch Of The Author
• Miniature Edition [Jones & Company, London, 1829]; 9 x 5.5cm; blank leaf, 8 pages Publisher’s ads, 2 plates [portrait, tissue guard & University Edition title page, 1825], xvi, 48 pages, blank leaf; red silk-woven boards, spine rubbed & a little faded, silk worn through at corners, black paper on spine with gold titling, all edges gilt, an excellent copy
• Part of the Jones’ Diamond Poets series, so named due to the diamond-point tooling used to produce sharp, clear text in these miniature formats.
• Thomas Gray [1716 – 1771] was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar educated at Eton College & Cambridge University. He was a friend of Horace Walpole.
• On the death of Colley Cibber in 1757, Gray had the honour of refusing the office of Poet Laureate