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GRAY, Thomas. Odes . Printed at Strawberry-Hill for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. 4 o (251 x 193 mm). Engraved title vignette by C. Grignion after R. Bentley. With half-title. (Some browning.) Bound with 10 other verse pamphlets in contemporary mottled calf, gilt-panelled spine with lettering-piece reading: "Miscel/lanies," green silk marker (upper cover rehinged, lower joints cracked, spine chipped), calf-backed brown cloth solander box, spine gilt-lettered. Provenance : William Downes (bookplate) -- John Hayward (pencilled inscription) -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 22 August 1972. FIRST EDITION. THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED AT HORACE WALPOLE'S STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS. The two Pindaric odes, written in 1754 and 1757, have the opening lines "Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake" and "Ruin seize thee, ruthless King.' Both are untitled, but were subsequently called "On the Progress of Poesy" and "The Bard". 2000 copies were printed. Ashley II, p. 159; Hayward 174; Hazen 1; Northup 180; Rothschild 1067. The 10 other verse pamphlets in this bound miscellany are as follows: Thomas GRAY. An Elegy written in a Country Church Yard . London: for R. and J. Dodsley, and sold by M. Cooper, 1759. 4 o . 11 + [1] pages, the last blank. Title between woodcut rules with emblems of death, the upper rule repeated at head of poem. Eleventh edition. Northup 507 -- Robert DODSLEY (1703-1764). Public Virtue: A poem in three books. I. Agriculture II. Commerce. III. Arts . London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1753. 4 o . vi + [2] + 88 + [8] pages, including advertisements at end. FIRST EDITION, variant without index -- Mark AKENSIDE (1721-1770). Odes on Several Subjects . London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1760. 4 o . 52 pages. Second edition. Rothschild 26; Williams p. 91 -- William MASON (1725-1797). Odes . Cambridge: J. Bentham [for] William Thurlbourn, and R. and J. Dodsley, London, 1756. 4 o . 31 + [1] pages, the last blank. Engraved title vignette. Second edition, the first appearing in the same year -- [James HAMMOND (1710-1742)]. Love Elegies written in the year 1732 . London: G. Hawkins, 1757. 4 o . 31 + [1] pages, the last blank. Fourth edition -- [John SCOTT of Amwell (1730-1783)]. Four Elegies Descriptive and Moral . London: J. Buckland, R. and J. Dodsley [and 5 others], 1760. 4 o . [4] + 24 pages, the last unnumbered. Engraved title vignette and tailpiece by Grignion, errata slip pasted onto title verso (lacking half-title). FIRST EDITION. Dobell 1600; Rothschild 1822 -- [David MALLET (1705-1765)]. Amyntor and Theodora: or, The Hermit. London: Paul Vaillant, 1748. 4 o . [2] + (viii) + 92 pages. (L2v and L3r soiled at lower margin.) "Second" edition, a reissue of the 1747 edition with a cancel title. Foxon M48 -- John DELAP (1725-1812). Elegies . London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1760. 4 o . 11 + [1] pages, the last blank. (Light spotting.) FIRST EDITION -- [Mark AKENSIDE]. Odes on Several Subjects . London: for R. Dodsley, and sold by M. Cooper, 1745. 4 o . 54 pages, including half-title. Engraved title vignette. FIRST EDITION, one of three variants. Williams p. 90 -- [David MALLET]. Edwin and Emma . Birmingham: JOHN BASKERVILLE 1760. 4 o . 15 + [1] pages, the last blank. FIRST EDITION. Gaskell Baskerville 11; Rothschild 1364.