Lot 617

COSWAY BINDING. BURNS Robert

Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£8,225
Description
Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect (A facsimile of the Kilmarnock edition) ... Cosway binding of green crushed morocco, with a watercolour on ivorine portrait miniature of Burns on the upper cover by C.B. Currie, surrounded by gilt thistles, the spine decorated with gilt thistle heads within compartments, dark green watered silk endpapers, inner gilt doublures, t.e.g., by Riviere, in its original fleece lined slipcase, 8vo., Glasgow: John Smith, 1927
Note: No 913 of the Cosway binding signed by John Stonehouse and C.B. Currie
