7th Jun, 2019 11:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
  Lot 58
 

58

Gray, Thomas Gray's Elegy. Longman & Co., 1846. 8vo, bound-in Leake's patent Relievo binding...

Gray, Thomas
Gray's Elegy. Longman & Co., 1846. 8vo, bound-in Leake's patent Relievo binding after designs by Owen Jones; illustrated after illuminated manuscipts by Jones.
Part of the Victorian fashion for medieval styles in design, this book was produced by Owen Jones to give the impression of an illuminated manuscript in chromolithograph. This mass-market Gothic was accompanied by machine-made imitations of medieval binding though the use Relievo bindings. These were heavily moulded and embossed leather and gave the impression of cathedral woodcarving.
Gray, Thomas

Poems of Mr Gray to which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. Printed by H. Hughs, 1775. 4to (2 vols in 1). Likely contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, marbed edges. Second edition (the pagination restarts for the second section but the signatures are continuous.

Sold for £80
Estimated at £100 - £200


 

. Binding of Elegy with some edgewear, internal foxing to central margins but very good. Joints of Poems a little cracked with head of spine a little detached on upper board (though board still attached), internally generally clean.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 7th Jun, 2019

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