 Another notable illuminated edition had been created in 1846 by Owen Jones in a legible blackletter script with one decorative initial per page . Produced by chromolithography , each of its 35 pages was individually designed with two half stanzas in a box surrounded by coloured foliar and floral borders . An additional feature was the cover of deeply embossed brown leather made to imitate carved wood . A little earlier there had been a compositely illustrated work for which the librarian John Martin had been responsible . Having approached John Constable and other major artists for designs to illustrate the Elegy , these were then engraved on wood for the first edition in 1834 . Some were reused in later editions , including the multilingual anthology of 1839 mentioned above . Constable 's charcoal and wash study of the " ivy @-@ mantled tower " in stanza 3 is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum , as is his watercolour study of Stoke Poges church , while the watercolour for stanza 5 , in which the narrator leans on a gravestone to survey the cemetery , is held at the British Museum ( see below ) . 
