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The seasons / by James Thomson ; with engraved illustrations by E. Bookhout, from designs drawn on wood by John Bell, C.W. Cope, Thomas Creswick, J.C. Horsley, J.P. Knight, R. Redgrave, Frank Stone, C. Stonhouse, Frederick Tayler, H.J. Townsend, and Thomas Webster ; and with The life of the author by Patrick Murdoch ; edited by Bolton Corney.

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.
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
Department