** Rare Leather Bound Thomas Gray Poems and Letters Chiswick Press 1874

Description

Author: Thomas Gray Title: Poems and LettersPublication:  Printed at The Chiswick Press London 1874…………………(See Pictures) Condition Of Book: This is a Very Good Copy of this book in a handsome full brown calf (leather) binding.with five raised bands to the spine and with title lettering in black moroccan title label to the spine lettered in gilt to the 2nd compartment along spine.The other compartments to spine are lavishly adorned in gilt.All page edges are in gilt.There are gilt floral lined borders to the covers and also gilt inner dentelles.All page edges of the book are in sumptious gilt.Marbled endpapers.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and the outer boards remain in decent order with some small scratch marks and some age wear to the extremities and to the corners.The book has some dustiness and spotting to the endpapers and pre-lims.A handsome copy to the exquisite nature of the binding.Large and Heavy book at some 2.5 KG in weight 4to (xi) 415pp Size: 4to [1874]