Accession number
PML 18487
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Published
London : Printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell in the Strand; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1787.
Credit line
Gift of Dr. Williamson, 1908.
Notes
Half title: Poems, chiefly Scottish.
Set from supplementary Edinburgh edition. Penultimate word of line 13, p. 267, "skinking" misprinted "stinking".
"Subscribers' names": p. xi-xlviii.
Imperfect: frontispiece (engraved after Alexander Nasmyth by I. Beugo) wanting.
Set from supplementary Edinburgh edition. Penultimate word of line 13, p. 267, "skinking" misprinted "stinking".
"Subscribers' names": p. xi-xlviii.
Imperfect: frontispiece (engraved after Alexander Nasmyth by I. Beugo) wanting.
Description
xlviii, [1], 14-372 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm
Provenance
Anne Seymour Damer (1748-1828), signature, followed by inscription by William Hay, stating that he bought the book at the sale of Mrs. Damer's library, 1828, followed by gift inscription by William Davidson (bookplate), presented by Hay, 1850 (front endleaf); Dr. Williamson.
Binding
1/4 brown morocco.
Classification
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