Accession number:
PML 77222
Published:
Edinburgh : Printed for the author and sold by William Creech, 1787.
Credit:
Gift of Mrs. Catharine Breyer Van Bomel, 1981.
Description:
xlviii, [1] 10-368 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm
Notes:
"Subscribers' names": p. ix-xlvi.
2nd ed. So-called "skinking" ed. Penultimate word of line 13, p. 263: "skinking".
Frontispiece, portrait of Burns, inserted. Engraved after Alexander Nasmyth by I. Beugo.
Half title: Poems, chiefly Scottish.
Imperfect: half title wanting.
Binding:
Purple and green morocco, "Cosway" style, painted miniature of Burns inlaid inside front board., stamped: Bound for Chas. J. Sawyer, Ltd., London. Attributed to Sangorski and Sutcliffe or Rivière & Son. In green case.
Provenance:
Charles J. Sawyer; Mrs. Catharine Breyer Van Bomel.
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