Title: Odes Author: Gray, [Thomas] Place: Strawberry-Hill, England Publisher: For R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall Date: 1757 Description: 21 pp. Copper-engraved view on the title page. 10½x8¼, bound in contemporary quarter calf and boards, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, custom cloth slipcase with gilt-lettered morocco spine. First Edition. The first work pinted by Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, produced in an edition of about 2000 copies. Green paper and engraved bookplate of James Balfour on the front free endpaper and gilt-lettered leather bookplate of Herbert L. Carlebach. Hazen 1; Rothschild 1067; Hayward 174. Lot Amendments Condition: Joint splitting, rubbing, scuffs; light chipping to front free endpaper which is loosely laid in, foxing, hinges worn; about very good in a near fine modern slipcase. Item number: 168563
Title: Odes Author: Gray, [Thomas] Place: Strawberry-Hill, England Publisher: For R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall Date: 1757 Description: 21 pp. Copper-engraved view on the title page. 10½x8¼, bound in contemporary quarter calf and boards, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, custom cloth slipcase with gilt-lettered morocco spine. First Edition. The first work pinted by Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, produced in an edition of about 2000 copies. Green paper and engraved bookplate of James Balfour on the front free endpaper and gilt-lettered leather bookplate of Herbert L. Carlebach. Hazen 1; Rothschild 1067; Hayward 174. Lot Amendments Condition: Joint splitting, rubbing, scuffs; light chipping to front free endpaper which is loosely laid in, foxing, hinges worn; about very good in a near fine modern slipcase. Item number: 168563
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