The Works of Robert Burns, with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings : To which are prefixed, some observations on the character and condition of the Scottish peasantry ... Vol. I (-IV).

Imprint continues: Sold also by Bell and Bradfute, P. Hill, and Manners and Miller, Edinburgh; Brash and Reid, and J. Murdoch, Glasgow; J. Brown, Aberdeen; W. Boyd, Dumfries; J. Morrison, Perth; J. Forsyth, Ayr; and by Merritt and Wright, W. Robinson, W. Harding, and E. Rushton, Liverpool.
Signatures: pi² a-b⁴ [A⁴] B-Aa⁸ Bb⁴ [Cc²] (blank Cc₁, with the "Postscript" not printed), 1 leaf of plates; pi² a⁸ b⁴ B-Gg⁸ Hh⁴ Ii²; pi² A-Aa⁸Bb-Cc⁴ A⁸ B⁴ C-D⁸; pi² a⁴ b⁸ B-Bb⁸ Cc⁴ Dd⁸ Ee⁴.
Possibly a variant issue (lacking "Postscript" in volume one, errors uncorrected in text).
Lacking frontispiece portrait of Burns, usually inserted in volume one. Engraved after Alexander Nasmyth by John Neagle.
Different woodcut title-page vignettes in each volume, attributed to Thomas Bewick by Gibson.
Dedication signed J. Currie.
Subscribers' list: p. (iii)-xviii.