Lot 120

Burns, Robert




Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2018 at 12:00 BST
£875
Description
Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: William Creech, 1787. Second [First Edinburgh] edition, 8vo, half-title, first issue with "skinking" on p. 263 and "Boxburgh" for "Roxburgh" in list of subscribers, engraved frontispiece, list of subscribers, contemporary tree calf, early ownership inscription of Edward Bethy, Captain of the Life Guards, 1812, some splitting to joints



