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Sale 320: Fine Books & Manuscripts (#320) 11/03/2005 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 11/03/2005 1:00 PM PST

Lot #66 The Seasons

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$875

Estimate: $400 - $700

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Description

Heading:

(Fore-Edge Painting)

Title:

The Seasons

Author:

Thomson, James

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

G. and J. Robinson, et al

Date Published:

1802

Description:

242 pp. Illustrated with engraved plates including frontispiece and additional title. (8vo) 8¼x5, full red morocco gilt, all edges gilt.

With a fore-edge painting depicting an autumn hunt scene for two-thirds of the length of the fore-edge and a portrait of James Thomson based on that of the frontispiece to the left of that. Bookplate of William Duckworth and a note it was given him be E. Leycester.

Condition:

Binding worn at spine and edges, small stain on front cover; foxing to plates and to endpapers and the pages facing the plates with browning; but the fore-edge richly colored and well-preserved.

Item#:

164513
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