Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Thomson, James, 1700-1748
Title:
The seasons / by James Thomson ; adorned with a set of engravings, from original paintings ; together with an original life of the author, and a critical essay on the seasons. By Robert Heron.
Alternate Title(s):
Morison's edition of Thomson's Seasons
Edition:
A new edition.
Published / Created:
Perth : Printed by R. Morison Junior, for R. Morison and Son, Booksellers, MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:
6, lii, 250, 39 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR3732 .S4 1793
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC: British Art Center copy is extra-illustrated, with many of the extra illustrations printed in color (à la poupée). Bound in gilt-stamped red morocoo, with gilt edges and green watered silk endpapers.

Added engraved title page: 'Morison's edition of Thomson's Seasons' with vignette.

Morison of Perth issued three editions; a 12mo edition in 1790; the 4to edition of 1793 and a single volume 12mo edition in 1794. Robert Heron's critique and memoir of Thomson were included in the 1793 edition.See Carnie.

Includes "Miscellaneous poems" by Thomson: pages 241-250.

English short title catalogue, T102386

Carnie, R.H. Publishing in Perth before 1807.
Subject Terms:
Thomson, James, 1700–1748. | Thomson, James, 1700–1748.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- 1793. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1793. | Wood engravings -- 1793. | Engravings. | Steel engravings. | Stipple engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1793. | A la poupée prints. | Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance)
Contributors:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815, engraver. | Catton, Charles, 1756–1819, illustrator. | Chesham, Francis, 1749–1806, engraver. | Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727–1785, illustrator. | Conyers, Julia, fl. 1790–1800, illustrator. | Corbould, Richard, 1757–1831, illustrator. | Fraser, J., engraver. | Hamilton, William, 1751–1801, illustrator. | Heron, Robert, 1764–1807. | Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807, illustrator. | Kirkwood, A., engraver. | Morison, Robert, 1764–1853, printer. | Nutter, William, 1754–1802, engraver. | Osborne, John, 1755–1795, engraver. | Pyet, D. B., engraver. | Ramberg, Johann Heinrich, 1763–1840, illustrator. | Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759–1840, engraver. | White, Charles, 1751–1825, engraver. | R. Morison & Son, publisher.