Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray.
date: label: Date
content: 1753
name: label: Author
content: Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771
label: Artist
content: Richard Bentley, British, 1708 – 1782
label: Publisher
content: James Dodlsey, British, 1724 – 1797
label: Print Maker
content: Johann Sebastian Müller, German, ca. 1715 - 1792
label: Print Maker
content: Charles Grignion I, British, 1717 - 1810
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. Engraved throughout with illustrations, headpieces, tailpieces, and illuminated initial letters. Mottled calf binding with triple fillet tooling on the covers, gold tooling on the spine and a lettering piece with ‘DESIG/ BY/ BENTL’ tooled in gold. Marbled endpapers and red textblock edges. Blue silk bookmark. Probably mid-to-late 18th-century British binding.
place: label: made in
content: England
label: published in
content: London, United Kingdom
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-550
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Book
label: Type
content: Book
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 38.4 × 27.5 × 2.2 cm (15 1/8 × 10 13/16 × 7/8 in.)