The Works of Mr. James Thomson (1803)
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The Works of Mr. James Thomson (1803)
by Patrick Murdoch
Full Title: The Works of Mr. James Thomson With His Last Corrections and Improvements. In Which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author.
9 ¾ x 6. In English. Published by R. Baldwin; J. Michols and Sons; F. And C. Rivington; W. J. & J.Richardson; J. Walker; R. Lea; W. Lowndes; G. & J. Robinson; T. Payne; G. Wilkie; Ogilvy & Son; J. Scatherd; Vernor & Hood; J. Nunn; C. Law; Longman & Rees et. al., London, 1803. Three Volumes. Complete.
Bound in publisher's original full calf with gilt-ruled boards and dentelles and gilt-stamped spines. Tinted endpapers, marbled all edges. All bindings are tight; all hinges are strong and secure, partially repaired and recently oiled. Age wear to leather and extremities; rubbing and occasional small chips and loss of gilt. Internally complete and amazingly clean, but for the pages with and around the plates which show sporadic foxing. Printed on hand-made paper which remains bright and pliable. engraved frontispiece portrait of Thomson and 11 engraved plates. In very good overall condition.
Complete antiquarian set of collected works by James Thomson (1700-1748), eminent and influential British dramatist and poet. Thomson's seminal work, ‘The Seasons’ (1726-30, revised 1744), is a labored and uneasy epic poem, yet it is considered to be the first substantial poem in English to have Nature as its main subject. Thomson is, properly, credited by historians of the Picturesque, with occupying a position analogous to that of Claude or Poussin in painting. ‘The Seasons’ is said to have inspired Turner, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Most authorities regard ‘The Castle of Indolence’ (1748) as his finest work; it consists of cantos in Spenserian verse about the pleasures and pitfalls of idleness in which Thomson was something of an expert, eventually occupying a sinecure rather than having to rely on real work.
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