Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 1,105
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
BURNS, ROBERT. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Engraved frontispiece portrait. xlviii, 368 pages, including half-title. 8vo, 208x127 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip, vertical crack in spine, rear joint starting, but binding still sound; contents toned with occasional foxing, soiling, and scattered stains; morocco slipcase. Edinburgh: for the Author, and sold by William Creech, 1787

Additional Details

Second (first Edinburgh) edition; issue with "Boxburgh" for "Roxburgh" on page xxxvii, line 9, and "stinking" for "skinking" on page 263, 4 lines from bottom. Rothschild 556.