Ed Mitford Rev John (8 results)

Boston. Fair with no dust jacket; Three-Quarter Leather; Little, Brown & Co; 1862. Three quarter leather with brown and blue marbled boards, Fair. Front board detached, edges rubbed, section of spine missing. Marbled end papers, frontispiece of Thomas Grey. 223 pages; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall . Fair with no dust jacket; Three-Quarter Leather; Little, Brown & Co; 1862. …

Hardcover. Condition: V.g. 1st Edition. 2 vols. clxxvi,243;586[2]pp. Copper-plate engraved frontis. portrait of Gray. Volume Poems with critical notes ; a life of the author and an essay on his poetry by The Rev. John Mitford, volume 2 the letters of Gray. Joints cracked and a little foxing and evidence of damp but otherwise a v.g. 2 volume set in tight condition. Original half calf with marbled boards. Lacks Vol. 2 spine label. BINDING WORN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. APPEARS LITTLE READ. Little wear to five hard back books.Different dates between 1835 and 1853. Pages are clean and tight.A few pages are uncut.Light foxing to some endpapers only.

leather_bound. Condition: Acceptable. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. Voumes I & II. Disbound - no covers, hence acceptable. Text blocks darkened with some foxing and thumbing. Text blocks firm and in one pice. Good rebinding project. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. London: for White, Cochrane, and Co., 1814. First Mitford edition. clxxxiv+271p. 2 plates including frontispiece. Both plates are portraits of Gray, one as a boy, the other in later years. Slight toning to paper, and foxing to second portrait with offsetting to adjacent pages. Otherwise internally very good. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Presentation inscription on blank page before frontispiece. Bound in half calf, with gilt decoration and lettering to spine, over marbled boards. Boards rubbed and worn at extremities.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A collection of the letters between Thomas Gray and William Mason to which are added some letters addressed by Gray to the Rev. James Browne, D.D., Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. This is a first edition of this work.Published in its entire form and arranged by Mason. With notes and illustrations by the Rev. John Mitford, Vicar of Benhall.Thomas Gray (1716-1771) was an English poet, scholar and writer of letters who declined the role of Poet Laureate in 1757. His most famous piece of work was 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard'.William Mason (1724-1797) was an English poet, author and divine, who was a friend and biographer to Gray. In a half calf binding with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart but with some bumping and wear to extremities. With an ink mark to rear board. Hinges tender. Internally, firmly bound. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown.Pages are generally bright and clean throughout but with slight spotting to first and last few pages. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Mitford Edition. clxxxiv, 271 p. 22 cm. Frontispiece portrait. Full leather with marbled endpapers and text block edges. Corners bumped and gilt spine worn. Some foxing and thumbing. Thomas Gray (1716 1771), English poet and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge, is best known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (p. 124). The English clergyman and man of letters John Mitford (1781-1859) had contemplated an edition of Thomas Gray's Works since 1811; in 1814 he produced this first accurate edition of Gray's poems, complete with notes, a biography, and a critical essay. It would be the first of many editions produced by Mitford over the years. …

Half Calf and Cloth. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Three volumes - Volume One - xxv, [1], 446pp; Volume Two - [4], 414pp and Volume Three (Correspondence of Gray and Mason, pub. 1853) - xxxviii, 486pp. Uniformly bound in half-calf, raised bands, spines in six panels, leather title label to second panels, volume numbers in gilt to fourth, remaining panels with central flower device in gilt, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Slight rubbing to extremities, spines very slightly faded, occasional light foxing but generally bright and clean. From the library of William Henry Mason, with his bookplates to front pastedowns Size: 8vo.…