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Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 2nd Edn.
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 2nd Edn.
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Title: Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Author: Burns, Robert
Description: xlviii, 368 pp. Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait by I. Beugo after A. Nasmyth. (8vo) 8¼x4¾, period full calf, rebacked employing much of original backstrip & morocco label. Second Edition (First Edinburgh Edition). Second edition of Burns' first and most important book of poems, first published the prior year in an edition of only 612 copies. "Burns is not only the greatest Scots poet but one of the great poets of any age and nation." (Printing and the Mind of Man p. 139). With the bookplate of English Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin.
Place Published: Edinburgh
Publisher Name: For the Author
Date Published: 1787
Condition
Light wear to extremities, front hinge reinforced, rear hinge cracked; light foxing throughout; else very good.
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