A selection of fine or unusual bindings seen at auction during the summer months will feature more prominently in a future issue, but shown left is a 1751 first of Thomas Gray’s An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard in a striking later binding that was among lots offered at Chiswick Auctions (25/12% buyer’s premium) on July 12.
Bound in full black morocco gilt by Rivière and protected by a dark green morocco pull-off box, this copy from the library of Roderick Terry sold at £7500.