Accession number
PML 89049
Creator
Thomson, James, 1700-1748.
Published
New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 82 Cliff Street, [184?]
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
"The seasons by James Thomson from the revised edition of 1746"--p. [1]
"Advertisement"--signed Bolton Corney, Greenwich, May 6, 1842.
Half title.
Text and t.p. printed within single-rule borders.
"The illustrations, seventy-seven in number, have been executed from designs furnished by various eminent artists, members of the Etching Club"--Advertisement, p. viii.
Seventy-seven wood engraved vignettes, including frontispiece, some signed Bookhout sc. or E. Bookhout sc. Other engravers include: Vizetelly, R.E. Branston, T. Thompson, Jackson, Green, O. Smith, T. Williams, A. Thompson, J. Thompson, J. Williamson, Landells, Bagg, [John?] Bastin, and Jos. Williams.
The frontispiece is designed by John Bell, and the four half titles of the seasons by Rauch.
"Mary K. Punnett"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
"Advertisement"--signed Bolton Corney, Greenwich, May 6, 1842.
Half title.
Text and t.p. printed within single-rule borders.
"The illustrations, seventy-seven in number, have been executed from designs furnished by various eminent artists, members of the Etching Club"--Advertisement, p. viii.
Seventy-seven wood engraved vignettes, including frontispiece, some signed Bookhout sc. or E. Bookhout sc. Other engravers include: Vizetelly, R.E. Branston, T. Thompson, Jackson, Green, O. Smith, T. Williams, A. Thompson, J. Thompson, J. Williamson, Landells, Bagg, [John?] Bastin, and Jos. Williams.
The frontispiece is designed by John Bell, and the four half titles of the seasons by Rauch.
"Mary K. Punnett"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
Description
[6], xlviii, 320, [6] p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 22 x 16 p.
Provenance
Mary K. Punnett, inscription ; from the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's pictorial blue straight-grain morocco grain cloth, blocked in gold, with yellow endpapers and dentelle borders, edges gilt.
Classification
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Department