Lot 210
Mackenzie, Henry, and others.
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
The lounger. [Colophon: Edinburgh: William Creech]. 5 February 1785-6 January 1787. Folio, a complete set of 101 numbers, original issues with the usual fold marks, contemporary half calf, bookplate of James Elphinstone Erskine & Charles R. Cowie, slightly rubbed, lower joint neatly repaired
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire
Note: Fine copy of the complete set of this early Scottish literary magazine, edited by Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831) who contributed 57 of the 101 essays. The most important essay is Mackenzie's glowing tribute to Robert Burns (issue 97 of Dec. 9, 1786) which appears here for the first time, a few months after the first edition of Burns's poems.