Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, finely bound in full calf, retaining the original boards
by Robert Burns
$950 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector
Edinburgh and London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, and William Creech, 1798. Leather. This 1798, two-volume “New edition, considerably enlarged” was an expansion of the Edinburgh edition of 1787 produced by William Creech. The set was originally issued “trimmed, in contemporary calf.” This set retains original, brown, speckled calf boards, each gilt-bordered and with gilt-decorated edges, skillfully rebacked with spines of
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