The Seasons / by Mr. Thomson
RA Collection: Book
Record number
10/1174
Author
Imprint
London: [s.n.], Printed in the year M.DCC.XXX
Physical Description
[12], 252 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28.5 cm.
General Note
Titlepage in red and black.
First collected edition, containing the first issue of "Autumn".
Five plates and title-page vignette engraved by Nicolas Henri Tardieu after drawings by William Kent.
Issue includes: "A hymn" to the seasons" and "A poem sacred to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton", but not "Britannia"
A subscription edition.
Contents
[T.p.] - The Names of the Subscribers -- Errata - Spring. Inscrib'd to the RIGHT HONOURABLE the Countess of Harford -- Summer. Inscribed to the RIGHT HONOURABLE Mr. Dodington. -- Autumn. Inscribed to the RIGHT HONOURABLE Arthur Onslow, Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons. -- Winter. Inscribed to the RIGHT HONOURABLE the Lord Wilmington. - A Hymn. -- A POEM Sacred to the MEMORY of Sir Isaac Newton. Inscrib'd to the RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Robert Walpole.
References
Foxon, T236
ESTC, T153055
S. Jung, James Thomson's The Seasons: print culture, and visual interpretation 1730-1842. (2015).
ESTC, T153055
S. Jung, James Thomson's The Seasons: print culture, and visual interpretation 1730-1842. (2015).
Provenance
The front pastedown carries the 19th-century Armorial bookplate of George Soaper with motto "Esse quam videri" and the booklabel of Douglas Grant.
Copy Note
The front pastedown is inscribed in black ink "The subsequent Editions differ in many parts from this --"
Name as Subject
Subject
English poetry - 1660-1788 - Works
