Lot 332

Burns, Robert




Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
£900
Description
Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect. Edinburgh: for the author, 1787, 8vo, second (first Edinburgh) edition, with "Boxburgh" on p. xxxvii and "stinking" on p. 263, engraved portrait frontispiece, half-title, list of subscribers, nineteenth century blue morocco gilt, g.e., with autographed phrase "for a' that" on slip of paper pasted in at head of frontispiece, foot of frontispiece and title with manuscript notes in ink relating to Burns' life, spine slightly rubbed



