The Seasons

Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co, 1809. Later printing. Leather Bound. Very Good. 262pp. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Mottled brown leather. Rebacked with gilt tooling and a red spine label. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins. New endpapers and flyleaves. Moderate rubbing to the extremities. Underlying boards peeking through at the corners. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown and name stamped in ink on the second front flyleaf. P. 241-253 are misnumbered. Contains 8 illustrated plates. A series of four landscape poems about the seasons written by Scottish author James Thomson (1700-1748), whose verse foreshadowed some of the attitudes of the Romantic movement.