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THOMSON, James (1700-48). The Seasons, London: T. Bensley for Longman Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. 4° (297 x 238mm). Engraved frontispiece incorporating a bust of the author and portraits of Bartolozzi, Hamilton and Tomkins, 5 plates, illustrations and vignettes by Bartolozzi and Tomkins after William Hamilton. (Plates spotted mainly at margins, a few spots to text.) Finely-bound in contemporary scarlet straight-grained morocco gilt by B. Frye of Halifax, the covers with a wide Greek-key pattern and acanthus broder, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges (extremities quite heavily rubbed, some scuffing). Cf. Brunet V, 836; Lowndes 2671.
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