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[SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE.] BURNS, Robert (1759-96). Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: William Creech, 1787.
8o (204 x 125 mm). Half-title. Engraved portrait after A. Nasmyth. A JEWELLED BINDING SET WITH 37 JEWELS, INCLUDING 20 TOPAZES, 8 AMETHYSTS, 5 TURQUOISES AND 4 CAIRN-GORMS [the jewel of Scotland], by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, green levant morocco, covers elaborately gold tooled and with inlaid red poppies, outer borders with lines from "Comin' through the Rye," and with 10 topazes, front doublure of brown morocco with sunken panel with onlays in tan, green red and purple and daisies and foliage, each flower with a turquoise set at center and with 4 cairn-gorms at edges, and with lines from ""To Best-laid Schemes of Mice and Men" in gold in outer border, front brown levant flyleaf with lines from "Auld Lang Syne," the rear endleaf similarly decorated with lines from "John Anderson," the rear of brown morocco with sunken panel with a thistle in relief set with an amethysts, surrounded by an inscriptive border with lines from "Green Grow the Rushes," brown watered silk endleaves, edges gilt, IN VERY FINE CONDITION; silk and plush-lined blue straight-grained morocco folding case.
A superb jeweled binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with a 3-page typed description of the inspiration of the binding signed by G. Sutcliffe: "...The motive for the various decorations of the binding has been suggested by some of the best known lines of Scotland's premier poet. 'Comin thro' the Rye' is the theme of both front & back covers. A full ripe harvest is suggested sprinkled with bright scarlet poppies. The colour scheme is mellow in tone, an effect which is furthered by Topazes which are inserted into the borders... All the stones are genuine as described, each in a gold setting inserted beneath the leather and all the designs used in the decoration have been specially prepared for this volume and will not be duplicated." Rothschild 556.
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A superb jeweled binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with a 3-page typed description of the inspiration of the binding signed by G. Sutcliffe: "...The motive for the various decorations of the binding has been suggested by some of the best known lines of Scotland's premier poet. 'Comin thro' the Rye' is the theme of both front & back covers. A full ripe harvest is suggested sprinkled with bright scarlet poppies. The colour scheme is mellow in tone, an effect which is furthered by Topazes which are inserted into the borders... All the stones are genuine as described, each in a gold setting inserted beneath the leather and all the designs used in the decoration have been specially prepared for this volume and will not be duplicated." Rothschild 556.