BURNS ROBERT Letters Addressed to Clarinda

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BURNS, ROBERT. Letters Addressed to Clarinda. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Burns. Includes Poems and Songs bound after Letters. 12mo, 3/4 straight-grained navy morocco gilt over marbled boards, by Sanford, lightly rubbed. Philadelphia: J. B. Austin, 1809

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first american edition and an early Philadelphia imprint of the famous series of letters by Burns to Agnes Maclehose (Clarinda) written during the winter of 1777-78. Only twelve institutional copies recorded for this title and date. Shaw and Shoemaker 17127.