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BURNS, Robert (1759-1796). Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Edinburgh: printed for the author and sold by William Creech, 1787. 8° (206 x 120mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait. (Some browning and offsetting, X2 with 70mm clean tear.) Contemporary tree calf (upper board almost detached), 20th-century morocco slipcase. Provenance: subscriber's copy (half-title with faint autograph inscription 'William Mitchell Esq. Leith'; pencil note below stating 'the above is Burns' own writing') -- George Allison Armour (bookplate). Exhibition: Grolier Club (exhibition label loosely inserted). Second (first Edinburgh) edition. With the misprint 'Boxburgh' for 'Roxburgh' in the list of subscribers and 'stinking' for 'skinking' on p. 263. Egerer 2; Rothschild 556.
R. BURNS. Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Berwick: H. Richardson for J. Taylor, 1801. 2 volumes, 12° (170 x 90mm). Engraved additional title to each volume. Woodcut vignettes. (Quire Q in vol. I with repaired marginal tears, light creasing in vol. II). Contemporary reversed calf (spines worn). Provenance: ANDREW LANG'S COPY (front blank with his signed 8-line gift inscription: 'In Burns every Scot worthy of the name admires and contemplates himself, his ideal self, independent, fond of whiskey, fonder of the lasses, you are the true repesentative of him and his nation') -- W. Craibe Angus (attribution in pencil on front free endpaper; related press clipping from the Glasgow Herald tipped in). Exhibited: The Burns Centenary Memorial Exhibition Glasgow 1896 (pencil inscription). Egerer 53. (3)
R. BURNS. Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Berwick: H. Richardson for J. Taylor, 1801. 2 volumes, 12° (170 x 90mm). Engraved additional title to each volume. Woodcut vignettes. (Quire Q in vol. I with repaired marginal tears, light creasing in vol. II). Contemporary reversed calf (spines worn). Provenance: ANDREW LANG'S COPY (front blank with his signed 8-line gift inscription: 'In Burns every Scot worthy of the name admires and contemplates himself, his ideal self, independent, fond of whiskey, fonder of the lasses, you are the true repesentative of him and his nation') -- W. Craibe Angus (attribution in pencil on front free endpaper; related press clipping from the Glasgow Herald tipped in). Exhibited: The Burns Centenary Memorial Exhibition Glasgow 1896 (pencil inscription). Egerer 53. (3)
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