BURNS, Robert (1759-1796). Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect . Edinburgh: for the author, and sold by William Creech, 1787. 8 o in half sheets (200 x 118 mm). Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait after J. Beugo by A. Nasmyth. (Frontispiece rehinged and repaired at lower margin, title washed, lacking half-title.) Polished calf gilt by Riviere, edges gilt (rebacked, old spine laid down). Provenance : [Robson and Kerslake, London (bookseller's label)] -- H.D. Colvill-Scott (bookplate) -- purchased from Bennett and Marshall, Los Angeles, July 1973. Second (first Edinburgh) edition, this copy with "Boxburgh" instead of "Roxburgh" in the list of subscribers and "stinking" for "skinking" on page 263. Egerer 2; Rothschild 556; Tinker 452. [ With :] SILLAR, David (1760-1830). Poems . Kilmarnock: John Wilson 1789. 8 o (202 x 121 mm). Title within typographical border. (Title rehinged and soiled at margins, some marginal soiling of text, Ff2 with piece torn from upper margin, causing loss to one letter in headline.) Crimson morocco gilt by Tout, edges gilt. Provenance : Henry William Poor (morocco label) -- Louis H. Silver (morocco label), sold in the sale of Newberry Library duplicates from the Silver accession, Sotheby's, London, 9 November 1965, lot 320, to Maggs for £60 -- purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 12 June 1970. FIRST EDITION. Two of the poems are addressed to Burns who helped to obtain subscribers for Sillar's book. He subscribed to 11 copies himself (Ferguson Letters II, 384), and contributed a commendatory poem to his "Auld Nibor." Egerer 14. (2)
BURNS, Robert (1759-1796). Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect . Edinburgh: for the author, and sold by William Creech, 1787. 8 o in half sheets (200 x 118 mm). Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait after J. Beugo by A. Nasmyth. (Frontispiece rehinged and repaired at lower margin, title washed, lacking half-title.) Polished calf gilt by Riviere, edges gilt (rebacked, old spine laid down). Provenance : [Robson and Kerslake, London (bookseller's label)] -- H.D. Colvill-Scott (bookplate) -- purchased from Bennett and Marshall, Los Angeles, July 1973. Second (first Edinburgh) edition, this copy with "Boxburgh" instead of "Roxburgh" in the list of subscribers and "stinking" for "skinking" on page 263. Egerer 2; Rothschild 556; Tinker 452. [ With :] SILLAR, David (1760-1830). Poems . Kilmarnock: John Wilson 1789. 8 o (202 x 121 mm). Title within typographical border. (Title rehinged and soiled at margins, some marginal soiling of text, Ff2 with piece torn from upper margin, causing loss to one letter in headline.) Crimson morocco gilt by Tout, edges gilt. Provenance : Henry William Poor (morocco label) -- Louis H. Silver (morocco label), sold in the sale of Newberry Library duplicates from the Silver accession, Sotheby's, London, 9 November 1965, lot 320, to Maggs for £60 -- purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 12 June 1970. FIRST EDITION. Two of the poems are addressed to Burns who helped to obtain subscribers for Sillar's book. He subscribed to 11 copies himself (Ferguson Letters II, 384), and contributed a commendatory poem to his "Auld Nibor." Egerer 14. (2)
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