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Poems: PB 6-2007

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Poems
Translated as: by Mr. Gray

Maker(s)

Author: Gray, Thomas (poet)
Publisher: Dodsley, James

Categories

Description

First Edition.
Notes: "The second issue of the ’Poems’ of which only 750 copies were printed ..." Cf. W.F. Prideaux, Notes and Queries, 10th series, Apr. 28, 1906, p. 321-322.
Two issues were published in 1768. The second has a final contents leaf on p. [121].-- ESTC.
Half-title: Gray’s poems.
Contents: Contents: Ode on the spring.--Ode on the death of a favourite cat.--Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College.--Hymn to adversity.--The progress of poesy.--A Pindaric ode.--The bard.--A Pindaric ode.--The fatal sisters.--An ode (from the Norse tongue)--The descent of Odin.--An ode (from the Norse tongue)--The triumphys of Owen.--A fragment. From Mr. Evans’s Specimens of the Welch poetry.--Elegy written in a country church-yard.

[4], 119, [3] p ; 19cm

Place(s) associated

  • London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2007-06) by Grieve, Marr

Dating

Production date: AD 1768

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 6-2007
Primary reference Number: 156513
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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