Front cover image for The seasons

The seasons

James Thomson, Charles Heath (Illustrator), Richard Westall (Illustrator), Robert Burns
Print Book, English, 1824
Printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, by Charles Whittingham, Chiswick, London, 1824
Blake, no. 1464
Copper engravings
[i-v] vi-xii [1-3] 4-215 pages : illustrations (6 plates) ; 17 cm
2003853
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Hymn
Cf. British museum, compact ed. to 1955, p. 302, item 11643 no. 33
Engraved title page and half-titles "Spring," "Summer," "Autumn," "Winter," and "Hymn" from 1819 ed. bound in between p. [i] and [iii], [1] and [3], 46 and 47, [116] and [117], 168 and [169], and 210 and [211] respectively
Signatures: 2 p.ℓ., A⁴, B-K¹²
Engraved vignettes by Charles Heath after the drawings of Richard Westall
Includes "Critical observations" by an anonymous author, p. [v]-xii, and "To the shade of Thomson" by Robert Burns, p. [1]