Description
Featuring a landscape fore-edge painting, The Works of James Thomson with His Last Corrections and Improvements.
Octavo, 308pp, [3]. Tree calf, gilt embellishments to covers. Title in gilt on red morocco label affixed to spine. All edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. No additional printings listed. Front hinge cracked, still secure. Light rubbing to corners, some loss of gilt along edges. A very good example.
This copy is the third book in the three-volume series. Fore-edge painting depicts a landscape of Rochester, with a small family in the foreground and a castle in the back.