Poems and letters
By: by Thomas Gray
Publisher: Printed at the Chiswick Press
Published: 1879
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; gre; lat
Translated from: gre
Number of pages: 415
Work titles: Works
Notes: Fifth (?) Chiswick Press ed. First Chiswick Press ed., also ill. with 4 mounted photographs, pub. 1863.

Two issues are known: an illustrated issue on wove paper, measuring 29 cm.; and an unillustrated, large paper issue on laid paper, measuring 37 cm.

Some (all?) copies of the illustrated issue were printed for the use of Eton College as gifts to graduating students. These copies have a special printed bookplate signed by the headmaster.

The plates are mounted photographs (albumen prints), and consist of a reproduction of an oil port. of Gray, and 3 views.

Title-page vignette.

"Mr. Thomas Gray. (By the Hon. Horace Walpole.)": p. [xiii]-xvi.

See H. Gernsheim, Incunabula of British photographic literature, 188.

Northup, C.S. Bibliography of Thomas Gray, 37c.