{"product_id":"gray-collins-falconer-cookes-edition-1790s-leather","title":"Antique Gray Collins and Falconer Poetical Works Cooke's Edition 1790s Leather Book","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThree small antique-bound volumes of 18th-century English verse collected and published in London by Charles Cooke as part of his celebrated Pocket Edition of Select British Poets, this copy gathers Gray, Collins, and Falconer under one binding and dates to the mid-to-late 1790s. Cooke's series was a genuine cultural project: affordable, beautifully illustrated pocket editions intended to bring the national canon of British poetry to a wider reading public. Each section opens with an engraved title page and a scenic frontispiece. Gray's elegy, Collins's odes, Falconer's maritime epic \"The Shipwreck\" — three poets, three very different voices, one period leather volume that looks exactly right on a library shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[d]Author | Thomas Gray, William Collins, and William Falconer [d]Title | The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, with Collins and Falconer [d]Publisher | C. Cooke, No. 17, Paternoster-Row, London [d]Date | Circa 1795-1799 [d]Edition | Cooke's Pocket Edition of Select British Poets [d]Binding | Full period calf with decorated spine; alternating black and red morocco panel onlays with gilt tooling; red gilt-lettered title label; red oval \"Cooke's Edition\" label at foot [d]Features | Multiple engraved frontispieces and vignette title pages throughout; period marbled endpapers in blue, grey, and red [d]Dimensions | 6 in W x 3.75 in H x 1 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[condition] The binding is structurally sound and displays well. The decorated spine retains its gilt tooling and both leather labels, with age-appropriate cracking and wear to the leather along the joints and at the head of the spine. The boards show surface rubbing and the characteristic mottled patina of period calf. The marbled endpapers are intact and attractive. The text block is clean with age-toning to the page edges and very minor scattered spotting; no owner markings. The engravings are present and clear. One condition issue to note: the first fourteen preliminary pages (the xiv prefatory gathering) remain connected to each other but have detached from the book block. The content is complete and present; the pages are not missing or damaged, but the gathering will require rebinding to be fully reattached. Offered as found.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51400120959254,"sku":"AMD-03106","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/June_2026_drews_books-7858.jpg?v=1781036347","url":"https:\/\/austynmariedesign.com\/products\/gray-collins-falconer-cookes-edition-1790s-leather","provider":"Austyn Marie Design","version":"1.0","type":"link"}