[Rarebooks] fa: WILLIAM MASON - ELEGIES - 1st Ed. 1763

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other 17th-19th Century British books and  
pamphlets, auctions ending Sunday, May 9. Details and images can be  
found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A., CA USA


William Mason: Elegies. London: Printed for Robert Horsfield: sold by  
R. and J. Dodsley; and C. Marsh. Also by W. Thurlbourn and J. Woodyer  
in Cambridge; W. Tesseyman, in York; and W. Ward, in Sheffield, 1763.  
FIRST EDITION. Hardcover 4to (27 cm; 11.75 in) in marbled paper- 
covered boards; [4] + 22 pp.; with the half-title page and final blank  
leaf...
Includes the elegies "To a Young Nobleman" (Lord John Cavendish), "In  
the Garden of a Friend", and "On the Death of a Lady" (the Countess of  
Coventry). William Mason (1724-1797), was a poet, playwright, amateur  
horticulturist and divine, and a close friend of Thomas Gray, who  
named him his literary executor. Vicar of Aston in Yorkshire and at  
one time chaplain-in-ordinary to the king, Mason was the epitome of  
the "cultivated clergyman" of the 18th century. Gray said of him,  
rather condescendingly: "He has much fancy, little judgment... A good,  
well-meaning creature."