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Small 8vo. 4.75 x 3.35 inches. [ii] + 223 + [1] pp. Bound in original dark green leather, gilt, decorated gilt both boards and spine. All edges gilt. Rear inside endpaper removed but has been neatly replaced. Some wear to extremities, including top right edge and corner, and occasional traces of foxing; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by engraved frontispiece protected by tissue guard, by engraved vignette portrait title and by title page portrait vignette. The Seasons, the influential blank verse long poem celebrating the landscape of the countryside, by the Scottish poet, James Thomson (1700-48) was first published in four parts, 1726-1730. Additional material appeared in later editions. The 1748 poem, The Castle of Indolence, was written in Spencerian stanzas which later influenced the romantic poets.