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Item #316 [Foulis Press]. Poems. Gray Mr, Thomas

Gray, Mr. [Thomas].

[Foulis Press]. Poems.

Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1768. First Scottish edition, which includes, among others, poems from Gray’s most famous work, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751). For this edition, the Foulis brothers had Alexander Wilson cut a special font of double pica roman type. Updike, Printing Types, II: 143.....

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Item #319 [Bodoni in English]. The Seasons. James Thomson

Thomson, James.

[Bodoni in English]. The Seasons.

Parma: Bodoni, 1794. One of a very few Bodoni printings in English. Bodoni “set what was, in general, to be the standard book style of the world until the appearance of William Morris.” Preece, Typography, Encyclopædia Britannica. William Morris “disliked Bodoni’s types, [and Morris’s followers] have stigmatized them as the.....

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