Signatures: [A]⁶ B-Ii⁴ Kk².

Titlepage in red and black.

Plates including title vignette, designed by William Kent, engraved by N. Tardieu and P. Fourdrinier.

The first collected edition of The seasons, containing the first issue of Autumn.

A prospectus, ’Proposals for printing by subscription The four seasons, with a hymn on their succession’, was issued in [1728].

With a list of the subscribers.

Separate half-title preceeding A poem sacred to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton.

Sold at Strawberry Hill sale, day i, lot 40, to Longman for Charles Abney Hastings, bought, 11/- (see his long pencilled note on the fly-leaf misattributing the signature on the flyleaf to Horace's uncle, brother of Robert Walpole); later owned by the late William Zimmerman, Jr., of Washington, D.C.

Horace Walpole's copy with his autograph (1731), a note, and many marginal markings in pencil. Corrections of errata may be in his hand.

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

A hymn

A poem sacred to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton.

Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 66

English short title catalogue, T153055

Foxon, D.F. English verse, 1701-1750, T236

Seasons > Poetry.

Poems.

Annotations (Provenance)

Armorial bookplates (Provenance)

England London.