Lot 13

BURNS [Robert]

Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect

Books

Auction: 8 July 2003 at 12:00 BST

£4,230

Description

... Port. frontis., with half-title, with the misprint "Boxburgh" and "skinking" correctly spelt, full crimson morocco, spines decorated gilt in compartments, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., by Ramage, contained in a black morocco, silk lined box, feint inscription on the titlepage, feint offsetting from the portrait to the title, 8vo., Edinburgh: Creech, 1787
Note: Egerer 2
The following autograph letters are bound in:
(i) Letter of 16 Nov. 1829 from D. Bridges to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, with cover addressed to Sharpe at 93 Princes Street, Edinburgh. The letter is about the recently discovered portrait of Burns by Reid.
(ii) Unsigned letter from Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe presumably to D. Bridges regarding Sharpe's opinion of the Reid portrait and its authenticity.
[iii] Letter of 16 Jan, 1851, from Robert Chambers to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, commenting on the loss of correspondence between Sharpe's father and the poet save for a whimsical letter written by the poet in the character of a vagrant fidler.
[iv] Account dated 11 April, 1978 from the engraver James Kirkwood to Burns. Kirkwood subscribed for three copies of the Edinburgh edition and settled his account by printing copies of the Beugo engraving of Burns after Naysmith for him, to send to his friends. It is docketed by Burns as "Kirkwood's act."
[v] Letter from Burns to Thomas Sloan of Dumfries. Thomas Sloan, a native of Wanlockhead, became acquainted with Burns when travelling between Ellisland and Ayrshire during the first year of his occupancy of the farm. He is mentioned in a letter to Captain Riddel from Burns. De Lancey Ferguson, 2ed. 340