A Bibliography of Thomas Gray

3. POETICAL WORKS

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8vo, pp. 31. Reprints the six poems in Bentley's Designs of 1753 (see no. 178). Described by W. F. Prideaux in N. & Q., May 26, 1906, 10th ser. v. 406. The only copy known to be in existence is in the possession of Mr. Edmund Gosse.

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Sm. 8vo, pp. [ii], 119, [2]. Some copies have also a half-title, which makes four preliminary pages. See also under no. 53. Published in July, 1768; according to Gosse, Gray, p. 178, before Oct. 2, 250 copies were sold. The price was 2/6.

JRM, caU, BM (239. e. 5), BN (Yk. 2658-9), YU Rev. by M. in The Scots Mag., July, 1768, xxx. 361; in The London Mag., March, 1768, xxxvii. 157 (six lines); in The Critical Rev., May, 1768, xxv. 366-71 (reprints The Fatal Sisters, pp. 368-9); in The Monthly Rev., May, 1768, xxxviii. 408.

Poems by Mr. Gray. | A new edition. | [Emblem.] | London: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall. | MDCCLXVIII,

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Sm. 8vo, pp. [ii], 119, [2]. In smaller type than the previous edition; there was apparently no other change. B, BM (11607. bbb. 23), HU Concerning this edition see F. W. D. in N. & Q., Sept. 18, 1886, 7th ser. ii. 228, and Albert Hartshorne's reply in same, Oct. 2, p. 276. Both of Dodsley's editions are described by W. F. Prideaux in Ñ. & Q., Apr. 28, 1906, 10th ser. v. 321-22.

Poems by Mr Gray. | [Vignette on copper.] | Dublin: Printed by William Sleator | in Castle-Street. | 1768.

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12mo, pp. 187. Frontispiece. The Leaping Bard emblem on t.-p., wdct., tail-pieces. BM (11632. de. 11), Yu Contents. Spr, Cat, Eton, LSt, Adv, PP, Bard, FSis, Odin, Owen. Carmen elegiacum, in coemeterio rustico compositum, by R. Lloyd, pp. 115-25. Elegia scripta in coemeterio rustico, latinè reddita [by C. Anstey], pp. 126-50, with the English on opposite pages. Ode on Ranelagh, addressed to the ladies, pp. 153-62. An evening contemplation in a college, pp. 163-73. The bard, a burlesque ode written by R. Lloyd and G. Colman, pp. 175-87.

Described by W. F. Prideaux in N. & Q., Apr. 28, 1906, 10th ser. v. 322.

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Sm. 8vo, pp. 79. An evening contemplation in a college, pp. 73-9. In the Elegy the redbreast stanza is printed as stanza 30, just before the Epitaph.

The volume has this dedication:

To Mrs. Elizabeth Gray, | as a chief promoter of it, this edition, of Gray's Poems, designed to exhibit a specimen of the art of printing, in this city, is with all due respect | inscribed by the editors.

The edition is described by W. F. Prideaux in N. & Q., May 26, 1906, 10th ser. v. 406.

Poems by Mr. Gray. | Glasgow: | Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, | M.DČC.LXVIII. | *[sic]

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4to, pp. [iv], 63, [1]. Page [i], title-page; p. [ii], blank; p. [iii], Advertisement; p. [iv], blank; pp. 1-63, text and notes; p. 64, Contents. Signatures, 2 leaves, A-H in fours. The text was furnished by James Beattie. Described by C. S. Northup in Englische Studien xliii. 149-55. JRM, BM (83. k. 9), B, YU

1770. Poems by Mr. Gray. A new edition. | [Monogram.] | London, | Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall. | MDCCLXX.

8vo, pp. [ii], 120, [1].
1771. Poems

C. Grignion sc.]

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B, BM (11633. b. 29), HU, NYP, ZSB

by Thomas Gray. [Vignette of sunrise, Dublin: Printed by Thomas Ewing, Capel

Street. M.DCC.LXXI.

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56), which the printer in Printed to remove "the

4to, pp. [iv], 69. Includes the English poems only. Apparently from the Glasgow edition of 1768 (see no. his dedication speaks of having received. reproaches which Ireland has long laboured under for bad printing." HU, B (2804. d. 17)

1773. Poems by Mr. Gray. Edinburgh. Printed for J. Balfour and W. Creech. 1773.

Sm. 8vo, pp. [ii], 59. The British Poets, volume xlii.

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BM (11604. a. 42) Poems by Mr. Gray. | Glasgow: | Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, M.DCC.LXXIII.

24mo, pp. [iv], 55. The text is the same as 56), with the notes at the foot of the page. added.

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Beattie's, 1768 (see no.
The Ode for music is
BM (238. a. 27 (2))

[1774?] Sm. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 155. P. [i], title; p. [ii], blank; pp. iiixv, The life of Mr. Gray; p. [xvi], Contents; pp. 1-155, text. Register, A-K in eights, L, four leaves, M, two leaves. The verso of M2 is blank. Includes only the English poems.

The Bм copу (11612. aaa. 26) has the autograph of Robert Burns, 1775, on the title-page.

1775. Poems | by | Mr. Gray. | [Vignette on copper.] | Dublin: Printed by William Sleator, at No 51, In Castlestreet. 1775.

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12mo, pp. 185, [6], (180-211), [4], (192-211), [1]. Pp. [1, 2], wanting; p. [3], title-page; p. [4], blank; p. [5], Contents [of pp. 1176]; p. [6], blank; p. [7], Advertisement; p. [8], blank; pp. [9]-151, text of poems as in the first Dublin edition, 1768; p. [152], blank; pp. [153]-166, Elegia scritta in cimiterio di campagna, translated by Abbate Crocchi of Sienna; pp. [167]-176, Ode performed at the installation of His Grace Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton; pp. [177]-183, Ode on the pleasure arising from vicissitude; pp. [184]-185, Ode on the death of Hoel; p. [186], Sonnet on the death of Mr. Richard West; p. [187], Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke; p. [188], Epitaph on Sir William Williams; pp. [177*]-211*,1 Ode on Ranelagh, An evening contemplation in a college, and The bard, a burlesque ode, as in the first Dublin edition, pp. 153-187, except that whereas in that edition the sheets were signed H, I, here they are signed I, K; p. [189], Elegia inglese del signor | Tommaso Gray, sopra un cimitero di campagna | trasportata in versi latini, | e | volgari. | [Vignette.] | In Eblana CIOIOCCLXXVI. | Presso G. Sleator. [L]; pp. 190-211, the Elegy in English, in Latin, by Giovanni Costa, and in Italian, by Giuseppe Gennari; p. [212], Index, which consists of the Contents of p. [5], plus the titles of poems on pp. [177]-211, and ignores pp. [177*]-211.* Frontispiece and tail-pieces. Register: 4 leaves; B-H in twelves; I, six leaves; [I], twelve leaves; [K], six leaves; [L], twelve leaves.

The above may be explained by saying that there were prepared two sets of pages 177-211: (a) the parodies which had appeared in the Dublin edition of 1768 on pp. 153-187; (b) five short poems by Gray, and the Elegy in English, Italian, and Latin; then both sets were bound up together, with (a) inserted between pages 188 and 189 of (b). Described by C. S. Northup in Englische Studien xliii. 155-6. BM (11633. aa. 22) 1776. Poems | by | Mr. Gray. | A new edition. | [Vignette.] London: Printed for J. Murray, No. 32. Fleet Street, ❘ and C. Elliott, Edinburgh. | MDCCLXXVI.

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8vo, pp. [ii], 146. P. [i], half-title; p. [ii], blank; p. [1], title; p. [2], blank; p. [3], The Contents; p. [4], blank; pp. [5]-xviii, A short

1 The stars are here used for convenience; they do not occur in the book itself.

account of the life and writings of Mr. Gray; pp. [19]-146, text. Frontispiece and one plate.

The contents are the same as in the Millar edition of [1774?]; see no. 61. An irregular ode is now called Ode for music.

HH, BM (11633. e. 49) 1777. Poems by Mr. Gray. | Glasgow: | Printed by Andrew Foulis, | M.DCC.LXXVII.

[64 24mo, pp. [iv], 56. The contents are the same as in the Beattie edition of 1768 (see no. 56), with the notes at the foot of the page. The Ode for music is added. BM (11630. a. 5 (2))

1778. Poems by Mr. Gray. | A new edition. | [Vignette.] London: | Printed for J. Murray, No. 32, Fleet Street. MDCCLXXVIII.

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12mo, pp. [vi], 158. 3 plates. P. [i], half-title; pp. [ii], [iv], [vi], blank; p. [iii], title, as given above; p. [v], dedication, to Sir Thomas Mills; pp. [i]-vii, Advertisement to this edition; p. [viii], blank; p. [ix], Contents; p. [x], blank; pp. [xi]-xxiv, A short account of the life and writings of Mr. Gray; pp. [xxv]-xxxii, The last will and testament of Mr. Thomas Gray; pp. [xxxiii]-xxxix, The tears of genius. An ode. To the memory of Mr. Gray. (By J. T- -.); p. [xl], blank; pp. [41]-158, text.

NYP

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1779. Poems by Mr. Gray. Dublin. 1779. Cr. 8vo. I have not seen this. Poems by Mr. Gray. With a biographical and critical | account of the author. London: Sold by R. Tomlins, J. Chandler, D. Watson, and H. Middleton. MDCCLXXIX.

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8vo. Frontispiece. Contents. P. [i], title-page as given above; pp. [ii], [xviii], blank; pp. iii-xv, The life of Mr. Gray; p. xvi, An epitaph on Mr. Gray in Westminster Abbey, 1778; p. [xvii], Contents; pp. [19]165, text.

1780. The poetical works | of | Mr. Gray. | A new edition. | London: Printed for the Booksellers in Town and Country.

[68 [1780?] 8vo, pp. viii, 46. The frontispiece is a wretched woodcut of a churchyard. BM (11633. df. 13)

Includes twelve English poems.

1782. The poetical works of Thomas Gray. | With the life of the author. [Quotation from the Ode to Adversity, 11. 41-48; Gray of himself.] Edinburg: | At the Apollo Press, by the Martins. | Anno 1782.

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24mo, pp. xxxiv, 94. P. [i], title-page; p. [ii], blank; p. [iii], second title-page; p. [iv], blank; pp. [v]-xxiv, Life; pp. xxv-xxviii, Will; pp. xxix-xxxiv, The tears of genius, by J. T[aite]; pp. 1-94, text. Register, A-G in sixes; H, five leaves. Bell's edition of The Poets of Great

Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, no. 100. Bound with the works of C. Pitt, and Richard and Gilbert West. Portrait and engr. t.-p. [a scene illustrating the lines, On Thracia's hills the Lord of War Has curb'd the fury of his car]. BM (1066. c. 8), BN (Yk. 417), HU

1782. The poetical works of Thomas Gray, with the life of the author. London. J. Bell. 1782.

[69a 24mo. Bound with The poetical works of Richard West. The Poets of Great Britain. See no. 74. BN (Yk. 417 and 526)

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Sm. 8vo, pp. [iv], 178. P. [i], engraved half-title: Poems; by Mr Gray. [Engraving.] | London: Printed for J. Murray, No 32, Fleet Street; p. [ii], blank; p. [iii], title-page as above; p. [iv], blank; pp. [i]-vii, Advertisement; p. [viii], blank; p. [ix], Contents; p. [x], blank; pp. [xi]-xxiv, A short account of the life and writings of Mr. Gray; pp. [xxv]-xxxii, The last will and testament of Mr. Thomas Gray; pp. [xxxiii]-xxxix, The tears of genius. An ode. To the memory of Mr. Gray. (By J. T -.); pp. [xl], [xli], blank; pp. [42]-157, text of the poems; p. [158], blank; pp. 159-178, Notes. Register, half-title, A, six leaves, B-L in eights, M, four leaves. 6 plates. BM (11643. b. 36), B The poems of Mr. Gray. With notes | by | Gilbert Wakefield, B. A. late Fellow of Jesus-College, Cambridge. |

Ingenium cui sit, cui mens divinior, atque os
Magna sonaturum, des nominis hujus honorem.

Horat.

Creative Genius; and the glow divine,
That warms and melts th' enthusiastic soul;
A pomp and prodigality of phrase:

These form the poet, and these shine in thee! |

[Monogram, G. K.] London: | Printed for G. Kearsley, at Johnson's Head, No. 46. Fleet-street. 1786. Entered at Stationers-Hall.

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8vo, pp. xxvi, [2], 207. Life, pp. v-xxii. Will, pp. xxiii-xxvi. English poems. B, BM (993. k. 10), ALE, HU, YU, CU Rev. in The Gentleman's Mag., July, 1786, lvi. 591-93; by C. T. in same, Jan., 1788, lviii. 22-5; in The Monthly Rev., June, 1787, lxxvi. 50513. For a note on this edition, see Varro in N. & Q., Feb. 22, 1851, 1st ser. iii. 138.

1787. The poetical works of Thomas Gray. | Glasgow: Printed by Andrew Foulis, Printer to the University. M.DCC.LXXXVII.

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Folio, pp. [6], xxiii, 116, 20. P. [1], half-title; p. [2], blank; p. [3], title-page as above; p. [4], blank; p. [5], Dedication to Sir Roger

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