The Seasons (Lovely Full Leather Binding with Fore-edge painting)

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FIRST EDITION. Full purple morocco leather. Five flattened raised bands. Compartmented with elaborate gilt design. Edges rolled with gold. Double gilt border with bird and comb designs. Mildly rubbed at extremities. All edges gilt. Lovely fore-edge painting of Kenwood, the seat of the Earl of Mansfield, with of cows in pasture near and men lounging. Gilt inner dentaling. Light yellow endpages. Numerous woodcut illustrations by John Bell, C.W. Cope, Thomas Cresswick, J.C.Horsley, J.P. Knight, R. Redgrave, Frank Stone, C. Stonhouse, Frederick Tayler, H.J. Townsend and Thomas Webster.