| Durham University Library: | Hall+0047 |
| Durham University Library: | Hall+0047 |
| British Library: | C.98.e.4 |
[1]2r, p.[i]
[within an ornamental border of 2 rules and flowers, centred decoration stencilled in blue and brown] THE SEASONS [line 2 in open titling] BY JAMES THOMSON WITH FIVE PICTURES BY JACQUIER AND AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BERESFORD [centred decoration] LONDON : THE NONESUCH PRESS 1927
[1]2v, p.[ii]
[199]
[within centred border of flowers, single but similar to t.p.] Of this edition of THE SEASONS 1,500 copies have been printed for sale in England and America: the text by The Kynoch Press, Birmingham; the pictures by A. Alexander and Sons. The copper-plates were engraved by C. Sigrist, and the prints were water- coloured through stencils by The Curwen Press. This copy is number [space for serial number]
[1-22]8.+ 5 single-leaf inserted plates.
[2, i-vi] vii-xx, [1] 2-198 [+2]; no paging on inserts.
10⅝"×7½" ; Dutch mould-made paper, all edges untrimmed; Old Face Open titling on t.p., Baskerville text with 2-line dropped initials; 5 pictures by Jacquier, printed by Alexander from copperplates engraved by Sigrist after designs by Jacquier, hand-coloured through stencils by Curwen Press. ; casing, full marbled cloth, red grey and blue, leather label at head of spine, gold-blocked: ‘The Seasons Thomson’.
The headings to the contents and illustration lists below are set in rectangular frames matching the t.p.
[A]3r, p.iii
| Introduction by JOHN BERESFORD | page vii |
| SPRING | page 3 |
| SUMMER | page 45 |
| AUTUMN | page 109 |
| WINTER | page 157 |
| A HYMN | page 195 |
| [horizontal double rule, thin, thick] | |
| The text of this edition is that finally revised by James Thomson and put out in 1746. ... [and 3 corrigenda]. | |
| SPRING | page 2 |
| SUMMER | page 44 |
| AUTUMN | page 108 |
| WINTER | page 156 |
| A HYMN | page 194 |
Not in Curwen Library or 1963 handlist; added at the suggestion of Douglas Ball and Pat Gilmour.
Hall copy at Durham is no. 858.
See Dreyfus 1981 cat. 47: details typefaces, Fournier ornaments for headpieces designed by Stanley Morison, design and printing of copperplate illustrations; delay due to the hand-colouring of the plates.
5/Dec/1927
Robin Phillips, 2021, revised 7/Oct/2024
