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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).

Accession number
PML 130012-15
Creator
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
Published
Liverpool : Printed by J. M'Creery ... for T. Cadell, jun., and W. Davies, London, and W. Creech, Edinburgh ..., 1800.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
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], 1 leaf of plates; pi² a⁸ b⁴B-Gg⁸ Hh⁴ Ii²; pi² A-Aa⁸ Bb-Cc⁴ A⁸ B⁴ C-D⁸; pi² a⁴ b⁸ B-Bb⁸ Cc⁴ Dd⁸ Ee⁴.
Different woodcut title-page vignettes in each volume, attributed to Thomas Bewick by Gibson.
Frontispiece portrait of Burns, inserted in volume one. Engraved after Alexander Nasmyth by John Neagle.
Dedication signed J. Currie.
Subscribers' list: p. (iii)-xviii.
Description
4 v. : ill., port. ; 22 cm.
Provenance
Nicholas Robinson (signed armorial bookplate, motto "virtute non verbis"); Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary olive calf, gold-tooled (musical instruments on spine), red spine label.
Classification
Department