Thomas Cecil Gray (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Highlighting/Underlining/Notes etc. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Price Clipped DJ, Minor wear. 24 hour dispatch. Full refund if not satisfied.

Condition: Poor. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,2650grams, ISBN:040700145X.

[1948], 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 194pp. Illustrations. Edgewear to dust jacket and a previous owner's inscription inside. Biography of Thomas Gray & Dorothy Osborne. Locale:. (Biography, Authors).

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. xi + [i] + 194 pp. Bound in original cloth, gilt, with contrasting title label, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper, which has faded spine, sunned edges, some foxing and edge chips, including head and tail of spine. A little wear to tail of spine and a few traces of foxing; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by drawn pictorial title page in colour and by 4 black and white portrait plates. Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple (1627-95), from a Royalist family, fell in love in 1647 with William Temple (1628-99), later a diplomat in Brussels and The Hague. At first unable to marry, her lively courtship correspondence with him dates from 1652-54, the two years preceding their marriage. The second biographical study is of the poet Thomas Gray (1716-71). David Cecil (1902-86) was a biographer, historian and Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. HISTORY/THEOLOGY BIOGRAPHY HISTORY BIOGRAPHY- 18TH CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE POETRY HISTORY/THEOLOGY.