Life of Robert Burns

by Fine Binding - Cosway style, Robert Burns, J.

$8,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

Edinburgh and London: Constable and Co. and Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1828. First edition. A very fine copy, octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 215 x 133 mm. , viii, 446p. Illustrated with vignette engraving as head piece on first text page, extra illustrated with twenty-one plates of portraits and views, of which five are hand colored. A fine 'Extra-Illustrated' Cosway-Style binding ca. 1940 by Bayntun

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