The Poetical Works of James Thomson
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. Octavo. Illustrated edition. Original publisher's cobalt-blue cloth, elaborately stamped in black and gilt to upper board and spine. Ornamental floral decoration, gilt-lettered title panels, and all edges gilt. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Binding retains strong color and bright gilt, with rubbing to extremities, fraying and minor cloth loss at spine ends, and worn corners. Library label to lower spine. Institutional stamp and handwritten ownership and acquisition notes to front endpaper. Title page with substantial tearing and paper loss at lower fore-edge corner, splitting along inner margin, and handwritten library markings. Text block age-toned. Former institutional library copy.
An attractive nineteenth-century American edition of the poetry of James Thomson, the Scottish poet celebrated for his influential verse cycle The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence. Particularly appealing for its richly ornamented Victorian publisher's binding, combining vivid blue cloth, intricate black stamping, gilt decoration, and gilt edges. Good. Item #1206
Price: $125.00