£1,500.00
Author: Thomas Gray
Publisher: London Strawberry-Hill for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757
First edition of the first book printed at Strawberry Hill published in an edition of two thousand copies. This is the first printing, with 'Ilissus' at 8:17 and a comma after 'Swarm' at 16:19.
Slim 4to, 21pp., recent full brown calf, boards with borders and central blocks in blind, lettered in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers. A little occasional light browning and spotting but generally a very good copy.
Hazen 1. Rothschild 1067. Hayward 174.