Lot 243

Burns, Robert









Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
£525
Description
Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect. Edinburgh: printed for the author, and sold by William Creech, 1787. Second (first Edinburgh) edition, first issue with misprint "Boxburgh" for "Roxburgh", and the correct spelling "skinking" for "stinking" on p. 263, engraved frontispiece portrait, bound without the half-title, twentieth-century half calf, a.e.g., slip case, slightly spotted; and a 1909 Facsimile by D. Brown & Co. of the Kilmarnock edition (2)








