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large 4to. later cloth, cloth spine labels. 581; 634 pages. Two volumes. Extracts selected and arranged by Thomas James Mathias. The first edition of a collection of Gray's verse and other writings, including his most well-known poem, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, which was originally written in 1751. Ownership notations in ink on the front free endpaper and second free endpaper. Some minor rubbing to the covers, front free endpaper of volume one with a small tear along the margin, else an excellent set. This edition is notable for the facsimiles of manuscript material, engraved frontispieces portrait by R. Pollard after B. Wilson in each volume, and Gray's thoughts on the philosophical writings of Plato. Four pages of Gray's handwriting in facsimile. later cloth, cloth spine labels. Gray, Thomas (illustrator).…