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GRAY’S ELEGY BRINGS £950. At Sotheby’s auction rooms £950 was paid for a poetic fragment of six leaves which was originally sold when published for 6d. It was a copy of Gray’s “Elegy in a Country Churchyard,” the first issue of the first edition dated 1751. The bidding started at £2OO and developed into a contest between Mr. Spencer and Mr. Maggs, and it was the former who secured the trophy. Though this is a high price, il is not quite the record for a copy of Gray’s “Elegy.” The Macgeorgc copy, sold at Sotheby’s about three years ago. realised £1550, but up till then the highest price reached was £750. Warburton’s own copy of Shakespeare’s works, which he edited in conjunction with Pope, was acquired by Mr. Quaritch for £6OO, a copy of “Hamlet” dated 1637 brought £l7O.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19840, 14 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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