Gray's Elegy Written In A Country Church-Yard with A Foreword by Christopher Sandford

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One of the Golden Cockerel SPECIALS, (1 of 80) from a total edition of 750 numbered copies. Specially bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in pictorial green morocco, with an urn blocked in gilt on upper cover and harp on lower, gilt title to spine. Internally B&W frontis, [4], 5-19 pp, [1], [1], [1] limitation, 8 wood engravings (including frontis) by Gwenda Morgan, t.e.g., others uncut, binders stamp to fpd, publishers green cloth slip-case (slight sunning). A Fine example of a rarely available Cockerel Special!. (186*126 mm). (Cockalorum 172). Christopher Sandford was not just the writer of the foreword; he was the owner and guiding spirit of Golden Cockerel during much of its most important period. And his introduction gives the edition a bibliophilic frame, situating the text as an object of contemplation rather than mere literature.