Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
San Francisco: Johnck & Seeger, 1928.
Limited Edition. Hardcover.
#108 of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Designed and printed by Johnck & Seeger in San Francisco. Hand-set in Cloister Lightface type. Presswork by Lawton R. Kennedy. Decorations by W. R. Cameron. With David Anderson’s Critique & Comment on the poem “The Anthem of the Obscure.”
The classic poem was first published in 1751. On a stroll through a graveyard, Gray muses on the democratic nature of death. In his critique, Anderson writes that the poem is “the Declaration of Rights of the forgotten, the humble and the obscure man in the field of literature.”
Item #9019756-1/2 x 9-7/8", gray decorated paper boards, 221pp, color frontis. illustration.
Fainting offsetting of frontis. on title page, a bit of light foxing, clean of owner's marks, tight and square, corner's crisp, very good+.
Price: $35.00