THE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS; with Dr. Currie's memoir of the poet, and an essay on his genius and character, by Professor Wilson.
Also numerous notes, annotations, and appendices. Embellished by eighty-one portraits and landscape illustrations. In two volumes. Pp. cclxxvi+150+xvi+410, 18 engraved plates with tissue guards (including frontispiece portrait and vignette title page both volumes), text decorations, 2 page facsimile of Burns' handwriting, index to first lines, glossary; med. 8vo; handsomely bound by Carss & Co., Glasgow, in burgundy leather, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, boards with triple gilt rule border and an inner panel featuring a central lyre motif surrounded by swirling arabesques incorporating acorns and small fleurons, edges of boards lightly rubbed; all edges gilt and gauffered; ribbon markers; dentelles decorated in gilt; binder's ticket at head of upper pastedowns, the upper hinge starting Volume I, some light foxing, mainly to outer leaves; Blackie and Son, Glasgow, 1843-1844. First edition thus. Egerer 450. *'This is the final shape of the edition which began to be issued in parts about 1840' [Egerer]. J. Carss & Co were well-known bookbinders in the nineteenth century, described by Dibdin as 'the favourite bookbinder among the cognoscenti at Glasgow.'. Item #184540
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