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Hardcover. Etat : Good. E. Bookhout with designs drawn on wood by John Bell (Sculptor), 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 (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Decorative red boards of the Victorian style with stamped designs and intricate floral patterns and gilt lettering; gilt page edges on all edges; patterned end pages. Illustrated with engraved illustrations by E. Bookhout with designs drawn on wood by John Bell (Sculptor), 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. Boards with wear and soiling; edges frayed; interior tight; pages dusty with light age toning.

Leather bound. Etat : Good +. Octavo. xlviii, 320 pages. Illustrated. Black morocco leather binding with gilt borders and decorations on both covers. Gilt decorations, raised bands, and gilt title on the spine. Gilt dentelles on the inner board edges. All edges gilt. Outer joints are lightly rubbed. Light edge wear to the covers. Light toning to the end papers. Interior contents clean.

Leather. Etat : Very Good. John Bell, C. W. Cope, Thomas Creswick et al. (illustrateur). A lovely leather-bound edition of this important and celebrated poem by James Thomson, illustrated with engravings throughout. 'The Seasons' is a series comprising four poems, each titled after a season; the completed collection first appeared in 1730, and inspired works by Joseph Haydn, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and J. M. W. Turner.Written by James Thomson (1700-1748), a British poet and playwright, known for having written the words of 'Rule, Britannia', as well as 'The Seasons' and 'The Castle of Indolence'. This was his most influential work.With a life of the author by Patrick Mulroch.Richly illustrated with engravings by various hands.A lovely leather-bound copy of this work. In a full crushed morocco binding. Externally generally smart; rubbed to the raised bands, the head of the spine, the extremities and joints. Ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound, with a little strain to the front hinge. Pages have the odd spot; endpapers and pastedowns are rather spotted. Very Good. book.

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. [7], viii-xlviii, [5], 6-320pp. Later full morocco by Thomas or John Fazakerley of Liverpool, with their name stamped to foot of front turn in, raised bands, spine in six panels, title lettered directly to second panel, and author to third, remaining panels with double fillet border in gilt, red morocco frame, single fillet inner border, with central heart tool and four dots, upper cover with double fillet border in gilt, red morocco frame with single fillet inner border, hearts and dots surrounding another red morocco inner frame, with central oval red morocco frame encompassing the title and author, surrounded by fauna and flora in gilt, lower cover with similar frames and heart and dot border, single line to edges, inner edges again with red morocco border and watered silk doublures and endpapers, top and bottom edges gilt with gauffering, fore edge gilt and gauffered, with a triptych of small fore edge paintings (visible) of country scenes. Small repair to head of upper joint, very slightly rubbed to extremities. Internally the text is lightly browned, but clean. Illustrated throughout by several artists including John Bell, C. W. Cope, J. P. Knight, Frank Stone, C. Stonhouse and Thomas Webster. Book plate of Randall Moskovitz loosely laid in (Weber notes that Randall Moskovitz owned other Fazakerley bindings). Thomas Fazakerley and his son John, bookbinders in Liverpool were well known for their 'reliure de luxe' bindings. Weber notes that "a lot of fore-edge paintings came out of Fazakerley's bindery . Many of the Fazakerley bindings with fore-edge paintings are done on the flat or closed surface [as here], especially those bindings that feature a triptych . It might be added that the style of paintings does not clearly appear to differ. Carl J. Weber surmised there may have been several artists working for Fazakerley and this may be true, though unproven" (Weber, 'Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting Artists and Binders', page 141) Size: 8vo.