‘Elegy’ from 1836 reveals original John Constable watercolours
Discovered lying unrecognised on a bookcase in a Sussex cottage, a unique edition of Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard will be offered at Gorringe’s this month with a £100,000-150,000 estimate.
Not only is the 1836 first illustrated edition of the great poem a significant rarity in itself (v…