Seasons, by James Thomson. A New Edition. Adorned with a set of engravings, From Original Paintings. Together with an original life of the author, and a critical essay on The Seasons. By robert Heron

Seasons, by James Thomson. A New Edition. Adorned with a Set of Engravings, From Original Paintings. Together with an original life of the author, and a critical essay on The Seasons. By Robert Heron.

Author: Thomson, James and Heron, Robert

8vo.(7.25" x 9.25") 1796. Thomson, James. Perth: R. Morison, Jr. Full brown treecalf leather. Spine with five gilt decorated faux bands, gilt author/title to gilt rule framed black leather to second compartment, fancy gilt rule borders with large centered gilt sheaf of grain to all others, fancy gilt rue head and foot. Armorial bookplate of Jos. Pyrke to front pastedown. Engraved frontispiece of Thomson, an engraved title page and another engraving of Intended Monument for Thomson, for a total of 3 engravings. Large type for ease of reading. Critical essay bound at rear, in 40 separate pages. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, with loss (see pic). Front joint tender. Head and foot of spine chipped with loss (see pic). Black leather title block chipped, affecting gilt (see pic). Covers mildly scuffed, scraped. Frontispiece and engraved title page with chipped fore-edge, these in addition to engraving, with more foxing than rest of text.

From Wiki: James Thomson (c. 11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!" In London, Thomson became a tutor to the son of Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning, through connections on his mother's side of the family. Through David Mallet, by 1724 a published poet, Thomson met the great English poets of the day including Richard Savage, Aaron Hill and Alexander Pope. Thomson's mother died on 12 May 1725, around the time of his writing ‘Winter’, the first poem of The Seasons. "Winter" was first published in 1726 by John Millian, with a second edition being released (with revisions, additions and a preface) later the same year. By 1727, Thomson was working on "Summer", published in February, and was working at Watt's Academy, a school for young gentlemen and a bastion of Newtonian science. In the same year Millian published a poem by Thomson titled "A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton" (who had died in March). Leaving Watt's Academy, Thomson hoped to earn a living through his poetry, helped by his acquiring several wealthy patrons. He wrote "Spring" in 1728 and finally "Autumn" in 1730, when the set of four was published together as The Seasons. During this period he also wrote other poems, such as "To the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton", and his first play, Sophonisba (1730). The latter is best known today for its mention in Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets, where Johnson records that one 'feeble' line of the poem – "O, Sophonisba, Sophonisba, O!" was parodied by the wags of the theatre as, "O, Jemmy Thomson, Jemmy Thomson, O!"s.

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