[1774?] Sm. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 155. P. [i], title; p. [ii], blank; pp. iii-xv, The life of Mr. Gray; p. [xvi], Contents; pp. 1-155, text. Register, A-K in eights, L, four leaves, M, two leaves. The verso of M2 is blank. Includes only the English poems.

The BM copy (11612. aaa. 26) has the autograph of Robert Burns, 1775, on the title-page.

12mo, pp. 185, [6], (180-211), [4], (192-211), [1]. Pp. [1, 2], wanting; p. [3], title-page; p. [4], blank; p. [5], Contents [of pp. 1-176]; p. [6], blank; p. [7], Advertisement; p. [8], blank; pp. [9]-151, text of poems as in the first Dublin edition, 1768; p. [152], blank; pp. [153]-166, Elegia scritta in cimiterio di campagna, translated by Abbate Crocchi of Sienna; pp. [167]-176, Ode performed at the installation of His Grace Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton; pp. [177]-183, Ode on the pleasure arising from vicissitude; pp. [184]-185, Ode on the death of Hoel; p. [186], Sonnet on the death of Mr. Richard West; p. [187], Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke; p. [188], Epitaph on Sir William Williams; pp. [177*]-211*,¹ Ode on Ranelagh, An evening contemplation in a college, and The bard, a burlesque ode, as in the first Dublin edition, pp. 153-187, except that whereas in that edition the sheets were signed H, I, here they are signed I, K; p. [189], Elegia inglese | del signor | Tommaso Gray, | sopra un cimitero | di campagna | trasportata | in versi latini, | e | volgari. | [Vignette.] | In Eblana CICICCCLXXVI. | Presso G. Sleator. | [L]; pp. 190-211, the Elegy in English, in Latin, by Giovanni Costa, and in Italian, by Giuseppe Gennari; p. [212], Index, which consists of the Contents of p. [5], plus the titles of poems on pp. [177]-211, and ignores pp. [177*]-211.* Frontispiece and tail-pieces. Register: 4 leaves; B-H in twelves; I, six leaves; [I], twelve leaves; [K], six leaves; [L], twelve leaves.

The above may be explained by saying that there were prepared two sets of pages 177-211: (a) the parodies which had appeared in the Dublin edition of 1768 on pp. 153-187; (b) five short poems by Gray, and the Elegy in English, Italian, and Latin; then both sets were bound up together, with (a) inserted between pages 188 and 189 of (b).

Described by C. S. Northup in Englische Studien xliii. 155-6.   BM (11633. aa. 22)

8vo, pp. [ii], 146. P. [i], half-title; p. [ii], blank; p. [1], title; p. [2], blank; p. [3], The Contents; p. [4], blank; pp. [5]-xviii, A short

¹  The stars are here used for convenience; they do not occur in the book itself.