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(BODONI PRESS.) Thomson, James. The Seasons. [8], x, 248 pages, including inserted initial leaf with letterpress statement of ownership by Prince Eugène de Beauharnais as "Eugenio Napoleone." Folio, 436x275 mm, 1/4 red morocco gilt circa 1807-14 with green morocco lettering piece and with the crowned monogram of the Prince de Beauharnais and his wife Augusta Amalia, Princess of Bavaria, on covers, moderate wear, covers faintly sunned; occasional minor marginal foxing; uncut. Parma, 1794
first bodoni edition. folio issue, one of only fifty copies on carta velina. Brooks 531.full-margined copy, from the library of prince eugène de beauharnais.
