The Seasons by James Thomas / Patrick Murdoch (Intr.) - 1799

Nabu Press, 2010-03-16. Paperback. Good.

London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1842. First Thus. . Hardcover. Fair / Good. First thus. Hardback. Full leather binding, with gilt titling and decoration to spine and boards. All edges gilt. Silk endpapers. 21 × 14.5cm, xlviii + 320pp. The Seasons is a series of four poems written by the Scottish author James Thomson. The first part, Winter, was published in 1726. Illustrated throughout. Condition: A fair copy. The leather is heavily faded to the spine and the board's edges, and rubbed to the edges. The contents are in good condition, with some pencil underlining, and a some spotted foxing to the prelims. A good reading copy. Previous owner's bookplate to the ffep.

London: Herwood & Bowyer, 1844. Hardcover. Very Good. Two Volumes watered silk blue binding with traces of gilt spine titles (hinges split, edges worn) 104x65mm All Edges Gilt 154pp 181pp inscription on FEP else neat and tight. These little silk bindings were soon given up by the publishers as they did not last well.

London: J. Cross, 1838. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. vi, [ii], 207, [7], 211-295, [5, ads] + folding frontispiece map and 1 single-page map. Original green textured cloth, front board lettered in gilt. Toned and soiled, a few edge-tears to early leaves and frontispiece. Binding somewhat shaken, cloth rubbed and soiled, front joint worn in places. Ownership inscriptions to flyleaf, including ‘Donald M Lachlan’ and ‘Elswith Hall’. Not a beautiful copy, but a scarce work. The text includes an unpaginated ‘Postscript’ after p.207 which describes Edward John Eyre’s overland expedition to Adelaide, including the naming of Lake Hindmarsh, and the ‘gardening calendar’ is probably the first printed gardening guide for South Australia. Ferguson 2525.

London: J. Cross, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, J. Cross, 1838. Octavo, vi, [ii] (errata, verso blank), 208, [4], 209-296 (last page blank), [4] (publisher's advertisements) pages plus a small (one page) plan of Victor Harbor and a folding frontispiece map of the Port Lincoln district (201 × 243 mm); both maps are dated January 1839. Original blind-patterned green cloth lettered in gilt 'James's South Australia, Port Philip [sic], and Australia Felix. 1839' on the front cover; cloth very lightly marked and slightly rubbed at the extremities, with minimal wear to the corners and the foot of the (slightly sunned) spine; endpapers and the folding map offset and a little foxed, with occasional foxing elsewhere; a very good copy, uncut and with 30 leaves unopened. The small label of 'Henry Hooper, Bookseller, 13 Pall Mall East' is on the front pastedown. The unnumbered four-page postscript after page 208 provides a summary of Adelaide newspapers 'received up to the 14th July'; in… Read More