Lot 374

FINE BINDING BY GEORGE BAYNTUN
BURNS, ROBERT
























Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 9 October 2019 at 12:00 BST
£1,625
Description
Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: printed for the author, 1787. Second [First Edinburgh] edition, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece, first issue with "skinking" on p. 263, contemporary green morocco with gilt border and four thistle-heads in the corners, spine banded in six compartments, gilt doublures with corner thistle motifs over marbled endpapers signed 'Bayntun.Binder.Bath. Eng.', corners bumped, very small wear to edges, spine sunned, [ESTC T91547]























