Gray's Elegy
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Book, picture and note courtesy of Dick Blacher. Commentary courtesy of Paul Jackson
Gray's Elegy
by Thomas Gray, 1903
#7 of 100
Note: This is a unique binding, in that, rather than the typical solid color leather, a variegated leather binding was used.
The book measures 7 3/4" x 5 3/4" and
has 16 pages. The body of the text is in Caslon and was printed on
French-folded Boxmoor paper in two colors. The limited edition of 100 shown
above is printed on Japan Vellum. Interestingly, McKenna states a "few" copies
were advertised to have been printed on Japan Vellum and bound 3/4 Levant but
none of this edition has been found. Apparently, he didn't look in Dick's book
case.
This book was listed in the 1903 catalog and sold for $10.00