A Bibliography of Thomas Gray

Newdigate, Bt.; p. [6], blank; pp. i-xxiii, Life [chiefly from Mason]; p. [1], Contents; p. [2], blank; pp. 3-116, text; pp. 1-20, Notes.

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Follows the text of Beattie (see no. 56) exactly, adding Music, Hoel, Sonnet, EpCl, EpWms, LSt, Vic, Essay I [Ed], Agrippina, Stanzas to Mr. Bentley, Ode [Sapphic ode], Fragmentum Alcaicum, Ode [Zeph], [Alcaic] Ode, Epistola [Sophonisba to Masinissa], Cog; Gray's notes; notes from Mason.

Also bound up with the poems of James Hammond, Lord Lyttleton, and William Collins. Also bound up with Collins alone.

new edition. | London: J. Mozley, Gainsbrough.

Poems by Mr. Gray. | A | Printed for Osborne and Griffin, and M.DCC.LXXXVII. [73 12mo, pp. 108. Contains Spr, Cat, Eton, Adv, PP, Bard, FSis, Odin, Owen, El, Music; no notes. BM (11632. a. 21), BNB

32mo, pp. 95, [1]. Frontispiece portrait, and (p. [1]) engr. t.-p. headed, Bell's Edition. The Poets of Great Britain | complete from Chaucer [to] Churchill. With vignette, illustrating the lines, On Thracia's Hills the Lord of War Has curb'd the fury of his Car. P. [i], title-page as above; pp. [ii], [iv], blank; p. [iii], a second titlepage; pp. [v]-xxiv, Life; pp. xxv-xxviii, Will; pp. xxix-xxxiv, The tears of genius, an ode, to the memory of Mr. Gray. (By J. TEnglish poems only.

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8vo, pp. [ii], 178. P. [i], title-page as above; p. [ii], blank; pp. iiivii, 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. xxxiiixxxix, The tears of genius; p. [xl], blank; pp. 41-157, text; p. [158], blank; pp. 159-178, Notes. Plates. BM (11631. bbb. 17) Poesie inglesi colla

1791. Pope, Thompson [sic] and Gray. traduzione in varie lingue. S. n. A. 1791.

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4to, pp. [6], xxvi, [2], 107. B, ALE, BN (Yk. 109-10), NYP, LC Bound with it are Torelli's Italian translation of the Elegy, with the English, pp. [2], xix; Cesarotti's Italian translation, pp. [2], 10, [1]; and Costa's Latin translation, pp. [2], 7, [1].

Noticed by James Henry Dixon in The American Bibliopolist, June, 1875, vii. 125, and in N. & Q., Apr. 3, 1875, 5th ser. iii. 265. Comment on Bodoni by H. K., Frank Rede Fowke, and Frederick Rule in same, May 15, 1875, p. 393.

200 ordinary copies and 100 large paper copies were printed.

1794. A complete edition of the | poets | of Great Britain. Volume the tenth. Containing Young, Gray, B. West, Lyttleton, Moore, Boyce, Thompson, Cawthorne, Churchill, Falconer, Lloyd, Cunningham, Green, Cooper, Goldsmith, P. Whitehead, Brown, Grainger, Smollet & Armstrong. [Vignette illustrating the Ode to Spring.] | London: Printed for Iohn & Arthur Arch. 23. Gracechurch Street. | And for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Co. Edinburgh. [79 1794. 8vo. Edited by Robert Anderson. The title-page for Gray (p. 183) reads as follows:

The whole of Gray occupies pp. 183-229. The life occupies pp. 185213; the works, pp. 215-229.

cаU, Bм (11607. ff. 1), BPL, BN (Yk. 258), nyp, yu The life, based on Mason's work, incorporates the Latin and the posthumous English poems, Johnson's criticism, Temple's eulogy, etc. 1797. The poetical works of Thomas Gray consisting of odes, miscellanies, | &c. &c. | London, | Printed by Ph. Le Boussonnier & Co. | And sold by The Author No. 38

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Long-Acre [and others]. | 1797. 12mo, pp. [viii], 159. Has also a second title-page opposite in French. Followed by Liste des souscripteurs pour cette ouvrage, 5 pp. A French prose translation by D. B. (said to stand for Du Bois) is printed on alternate pages with the English. BM (991. g. 27 (2))

Rev. in The Monthly Rev., Aug., 1797, n. s. xxiii. 461; in The British Critic, Jan., 1798, xi. 74-5 (reprints the Epitaph of the Elegy in French).

1798. Poésies | de | Gray, | traduites en français, le texte vis-a-vis la traduction, avec des notes et des éclaircissemens | également en français et en anglais; ouvrage propre à faciliter l'intelligence de la langue anglaise, particulièrement dans la haute poésie. Multum ille et veræ gloriæ, quamvis uno libro, meruit. Quintil. | A Paris, | Chez Lemierre, éditeur et libraire. rue Jacob, No 12, vis-a-vis la rue des Deux-Anges. | An VI. [81

1798. 8vo, pp. xii, 173, [2].

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24mo, pp. 83, [1]. Frontispiece and portrait. The life occupies pp. 3-23; The tears of genius, pp. 24-8; the English poems, pp. 29-83. BM (11609. aaa. 29), BPL, NYP, HU 1799. Poems by Thomas Gray, LL. B. containing odes, epitaphs, Elegy, &c. &c. Ludlow. George Nicholson. 1799.

[83 16mo, pp. xxxi, [1], 32. On the title-page is a stipple portrait drawn by J. Chapman from the painting by Wilson. B (280. o. 709) Contains the English poems only. The poetical works of Thomas Gray, LL. B. | late Professor of Modern Languages and History in the University of Cambridge: with some account of his life and writings. The whole carefully revised; and illustrated by notes, original and selected. To which are annexed, | Poems | written by, addressed to, or in memory of, | Mr. Gray; several of which were never before collected. | [Quotation, PP iii. 3. 1-4.] | London: | Printed for J. Scatcherd, no. 12, Ave-Maria Lane. [ 1799.

[84 16mo, pp. lv, [1], 186. 3 plates, one of which is a portrait. The preface is signed J. Edited by Stephen Jones.

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There was also apparently an 8vo edition with 6 plates. The annexed poems include (1) Garrick's verses (see no. 1533), pp. 163-4; (2) West's Ode to May (see no. 1530), pp. 165-6; (3) Ode on the death of Mr. Gray (see no. 1602), pp. 167-70; (4) Fragment of an ode on the death of Mr. Gray (see no. 1600), pp. 171-5; (5) Stanzas on the death of Mr. Gray, by A Lady (see no. 1604), pp. 176-7; (6) Taite's Tears of genius (see no. 1582), pp. 178-85; (7) Mason's epitaph on Gray in Westminster Abbey (see no. 1565), p. 186. The editor says that only the second and the sixth of these were ever before collected.

The printer was C. Whittingham. 750 copies were printed at a cost of £28 6d. See H. R. Plomer in The Library, Apr. 1, 1901, 2d ser. ii. 153; also same, 1896, viii. 563.

Rev. in The European Mag., Nov., 1799, xxxvi. 326; in The Gentleman's Mag., Oct., 1799, lxix. 2. 877-8.

1800. The poetical works of Thomas Gray, LL. B. | late Professor of Modern Languages and History in the University of Cambridge: | with some account of his life and writings. The whole carefully revised; and illustrated by notes. To which are annexed, | Poems | addressed to, and in memory of, | Mr. Gray; | several of which were never before collected. | Second edition, considerably enlarged and improved. | Lon

don: Printed by C. Whittingham, | Dean Street, Fetter Lane; | for T. N. Longman and O. Rees; F. and C. Rivington; [and others, 4 ll. altogether.] | 1800.

[85 Sm. 8vo, pp. lvi, 223. Preface signed S. J. [i.e., Stephen Jones]. HH, BM (11609. aaa. 30), NYP Life, pp. xvii-xlix. Will, pp. 1-lvi. English poems, pp. 1-188. Miscellany, pp. 189-223.

To this second edition Jones added a literal translation of the original of Odin; a prose translation of the original of Owen; an imitation from the Gododin (= Caradoc, no. 463a, and Conan, no. 470b); the Hymeneal (see no. 1179); the Sapphic ode to West (= Arist); Zeph; and several other minor posthumous poems. To the miscellany about Gray he added the Earl of Carlisle's Ode on the death of Mr. Gray (see no. 1549) and Mason's Lines to the memory of Gray from his English garden, book iii, 1779 (see no. 1566).

1500 ordinary and 250 large paper copies were printed at a cost of £61 13s. 6d. See H. R. Plomer in The Library, Apr. 1, 1901, 2d ser. ii.

153.

Rev. in The Gentleman's Mag., Feb., 1801, lxxi. 157.

The poems of Gray. A new edition. | Adorned with plates. London: | Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, for F. J. Du Roveray, Great St. Helens; and sold by J. Wright, Piccadilly; and T. Hurst, Paternoster-Row. | 1800. [86

8vo, pp. xxx, 162. 6 plates. The Bм copy is extra-illustrated by William Upcott with portraits, views, and other engravings; seventy pages of additional poems in MS.; and 150 pages of imitations and additional notes in MS.

BN (Yk. 243 and 2661 and Vélins 2374), LP, вM (C. 43. d. 27) Rev. in The Gentleman's Mag., Feb., 1801, lxxi. 157-8; in The Monthly Rev., Jan., 1801, n. s. xxxiv. 95; in The British Critic, Sept., 1800, xvi. 318.

Reissued in 1801.

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The poetical works of Thomas Gray. With the life of the author. [Adv 41-48 and Sketch.] London: Printed and published by G. Cawthorn, British Library, Strand. | 1800.

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24mo, pp. 101, [1]. Frontispiece portrait. Engr. t.-p. (same as in no. 69); also a second title-page which reads as follows: The poetical works of Thomas Gray. Containing his odes, miscellanies, &c. &c. &c. [14 11. from Taite's Tears of genius.] | London: | Printed and published by G. Cawthorn, British Library, Strand. | 1800. Bell's Edition xlviii. Reproduces no. 69 with some additions. 1801. The poems of Gray. A new edition. Adorned with plates. London. Printed by W. Bulmer & Co.

8vo, pp. xxix, 162. Frontispiece and 5 plates. life and writings of Gray, pp. vii-xxv.

1801.

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Some account of the
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The poems of Gray. 1801. See no. 86.

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1804. The poetical works of Thomas Gray, LL. B. | late Professor of Modern Languages and History in the University of Cambridge. | Philadelphia: | Printed for Benjamin Johnson, Jacob | Johnson, and Robert Johnson. 1804.

12mo, pp. 207. Frontispiece.

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Pp. 173-204 include Poems addressed to, and in memory of, Mr. Gray. 1805. The poetical works of Thomas Gray. Collated with the best editions: by Thomas Park, Esq. F. S. A. London. Printed at the Stanhope Press by Charles Whittingham for John Sharpe. 1805.

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32mo, pp. iv, 99. Plate (illustrating The bard i. 2. ll. 5, 6). In The Works of the British Poets Collated with the Best Editions by T. Park xxx. BM (1066. c. 42), LC, YU

The poetical works of Thomas Gray, containing his odes, miscellanies, etc. With an account of the life and writings of the author. London, Printed by C. Cooke for W. Suttaby, Stationers Court, & C. Corrall, 38, Charing Cross. 1805.

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32mo, pp. [iv], 68. Frontispiece (illustrating stanza 26 of the Elegy). In The selector, containing the poetical works of Gray, Goldsmith, Falconer, and Somerville, London, W. Suttaby and Crosby & Co. and C. Corrall, 1806. BM (11612. a. 20), cau (8700. d. 29), NYP Life, pp. i-xxii. Will, pp. xxii-xxiv. Includes 17 English poems only, pp. 25-68.

Cf. no. 87. At the end are the words, C. Whittingham, printer.

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1808. The poetical works of Thomas Gray. With the life of the author, by Samuel Johnson, LL. D. London: Printed for Charles Taylor, 108, Hatton Garden. 1808. 8vo, pp. 27, [1]. Frontispiece portrait. The poetical works of Thomas Gray. Collated with the best editions: | by | Thomas Park, Esq. F. S. A. | London: | Printed at the Stanhope Press, | by Charles Whittingham, 103, Goswell Street; | for J. Sharpe; and sold by W. Suttaby,

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