JAMES THOMSON. '....Poetical Works,' signed and inscribed by...

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JAMES THOMSON. '....Poetical Works,' signed and inscribed by author. Volume 1. Inscribed 'To Mrs young, my dearest Amanda. Accept, lov'd young! this tribute due, Go tender friendship, Love and you. But with it take what breathed the whole, O take thine the poets fuel! If fancy here her power displays, And if a Heart exalts these Lays, You fairest in that fancy shine, And all that heart is fondly thine, James Thomson (signed)' The Aldine Edition of British Poets, vol I, original cloth, chips to ends of spine, booksellers label to pastedown 'Seton & Mackenzie' of Edinburgh, Bell and Daldy, London, 1866. A signed tender poem to a friend from the author of 'Rule, Britannia', 'The Seasons' and The Castle of Indolence.

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