An Elegy Written In A Country Church Yard

London: Sampson Low, Son & Co, 1858. leather_bound. Tan morocco, raised bands, covers decorated in gilt and blind. Aeg. Near fine. 26 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Bound by the Monastery Hill Press, blind stamped by Kelliegram inside back cover. "The quatrain of ten syllables in which the Elegy was written had been used before, but never, perhaps with conspicuous success, except in Dryden's 'Annus Mirabilis.' In Gray's hands, it acquired a new beauty, and a music of its own." [see CHEL, Vol.X, p.124]. NORTHRUP 493.