Burns, Robert
Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
£2,016
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Edinburgh: printed for the Author and sold by William Creech, 1787. Second (first Edinburgh) edition with 'Boxburgh' for 'Roxburgh' on p.xxxvii and 'stinking' for 'skinking' on p.263, 8vo, frontispiece portrait, in original publisher's boards (spine possibly renewed) and contained in a custom clamshell slipcase, neat ownership signature of John Buchanan and label of Alfred B. Perlman to front paste-down, along with two neat notes to title-page: “H. Smith from Dennis” and “Pos.Rock”, inner hinges sensitively repaired