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Total number of records: 23

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Books and printed items18
Indexes5

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Brotherton Collection9
English Literature7
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse5
Ripon Cathedral2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Cookery Collection1

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english poetry3
art3
painters3
cooking1
german literature1

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Gray, Thomas23
Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)18
Du Fresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611-16683
Blair, Robert (1699-1746)3
Malone, Edmond3
Malone, Edmond (1741-1812)3
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792)3
Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774)2
Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)2
Parnell, Thomas2

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The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, knight : containing his Discourses, Idlers, a journey to Flanders and Holland, and his commentary on Du Fresnoy's art of painting : printed from his revised copies, (with his last corrections and additions) In three volumes (v.1)

Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792); Malone, Edmond (1741-1812); Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

1801

"A chronological list of painters, from the revival of the art to the beginning of the last century [by Thomas Gray]": v. 3, p. 291-323.

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The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, knight : containing his Discourses, Idlers, a journey to Flanders and Holland, and his commentary on Du Fresnoy's art of painting : printed from his revised copies, (with his last corrections and additions) In three volumes (v.2)

Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792); Malone, Edmond (1741-1812); Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

1801

"A chronological list of painters, from the revival of the art to the beginning of the last century [by Thomas Gray]": v. 3, p. 291-323.

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The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, knight : containing his Discourses, Idlers, a journey to Flanders and Holland, and his commentary on Du Fresnoy's art of painting : printed from his revised copies, (with his last corrections and additions) In three volumes (v.3)

Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792); Malone, Edmond (1741-1812); Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

1801

"A chronological list of painters, from the revival of the art to the beginning of the last century [by Thomas Gray]": v. 3, p. 291-323.

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The selector : containing the poetical works of Gray, Goldsmith, Falconer, Parnell

Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774); Falconer, William (1744-1824); Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)

[1819-1826]

General title-page is engraved. Each part has separate title-page and pagination.

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The grave. to which is added Gray's Elegy in a country church yard : with notes moral, critical, and explanatory

Blair, Robert (1699-1746); Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Wright, George

1786

Notes by George Wright.

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The Grave, a poem

Blair, Robert (1699-1746); Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)

[1790?]

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This reproduction in reduced format of William Blake's water-colour designs for the poems of Thomas Gray

Blake, William (1757-1827); Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Keynes, Sir Geoffrey (1887-1982)

1971

"This edition... published ... as a commemorative catalogue to accompany the exhibition arranged by the William Blake Trust ... The bound edition of the book will be published in 1972 ..."

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This reproduction in reduced format of William Blake's water-colour designs for the poems of Thomas Gray

Blake, William (1757-1827); Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Keynes, Sir Geoffrey (1887-1982)

1971

"This edition... published ... as a commemorative catalogue to accompany the exhibition arranged by the William Blake Trust ... The bound edition of the book will be published in 1972 ..."

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The poetical works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie : with a memoir of each

Collins, William (1721-1759); Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Beattie, James (1735-1803)

1835

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Title: Inscription for a villa of a decayed statesman on the sea coast

Author: Gray, Thomas

Date(s): 1766

Manuscript: Lt q 49

Contents: Ironic poem on the mock-classical villa at Kingsgate (Margate, Kent) built by Henry Fox, first Lord Holland

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Title: An Elegy written in a Country Church Yard

Author: Gray, Thomas

Date(s): 175-?

Manuscript: Lt 99

Contents: Elegy on the forgotten lives and deaths of unknown people buried in Stoke Poges country churchyard

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Title: An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard

Author: Gray, Thomas

Date(s): 1750

Manuscript: Lt 109

Contents: Elegy, in the tradition of graveyard poetry, reflecting on time, mortality and memory; the poem is incomplete (the poem has 128 lines, not 92)

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