The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence
THOMSON, James
[Preface by James Nichols]. With a Life of the Author by the Rev. Patrick Murdoch and Notes by Nichols.
REMARKABLY CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN ORIGINAL ARMORIAL CLOTH
Published: William Tegg, 1849
Stock code: 23140
Price: £122.00
8vo., with engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 4 engraved plates (original tissue guards present), small neat signature on front free endpaper, some light spotting to plates; original mid-brown ribbed cloth, sides framed in blind enclosing armorial crest in gilt, gilt back, buff endpapers, uncut, expertly recased, a remarkably clean, crisp copy.
With the nineteenth-century trade ticket of Brown of Bristol on front paste-down and 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The frontispiece is engraved by Greatbach after Gilbert, the plates by Greatbach after Gilbert. The notes by Nichols appear here for the first time. A remarkably bright, clean copy in sympathetically restored publisher's binding.