To Greet the New Year 2005-2011
To Greet the New Year 2011
Song of the Four Seasons by Austin Dobson
illustrated with cuts by Eduard Ege
In our seventeenth New Year Booklet, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter are personified in the four illustrations accompanying Victorian poet Austin Dobson's paean to the seasons. Dobson enjoyed creating an 18th-entury spirit in his work, and this love song evokes a pastoral lightness.
As well as Eduard Ege's four cuts, two of his lovely fleurons grace the title-page and the colophon. They were all made for the Genzsch & Heyse Type Foundry in 1921.
The sheets are sewn into stiff card covers with patterned paper wrappers and a paper label pasted to the front cover. The eight leaves, 8 x 4 1/2 inches, have been hand-set in Monotype Walbaum, roman and italic. Old Dutch, from the Dale Guild Type Foundry, has been used on the title page. The forty-five copies for subscribers were printed on Velin Arches, the remaining hundred and fifty on Magnani Velata Avorio, both from John Purcell Paper.
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