Gray's Elegy

by Thomas Gray, Owen Jones

$750 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

London and New York: Longman and Co. / Wiley and Putnam, 1846. Hardcover. This is the gorgeous 1846 edition, noteworthy for being the first book issued in the elaborate relievo binding patented by Frederick Leake and for the spectacularly illustrated contents executed using a chromolithographic press to achieve a fully interrelated program of illumination across the book. The elaborately and deeply embossed brown leather binding is made to imitate carved

• Binding: Leather

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