8vo. [6], 243pp, [1]. Title in red and black. With four engraved plates. Errata slip pasted to p.243. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, all edges red. Extremities worn, joints split. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, ink inscription to verso of FFEP: 'From the Author'.

The final edition of Scottish poet and playwright James Thomson's (1700-1748) celebrated sentimental blank verse poem to be published in his lifetime, and the last to be revised by him in expanded form. The Seasons were first printed separately, beginning with 'Winter' in 1726, with the complete cycle of four first published collectively in 1730.