Burns (Robert). Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1st Edinburgh edition, Edinburgh, printed for the Author, and sold by William Creech, 1787, half-title, aquatint portrait frontispiece by J. Beugo after Alexander Nasmyth list of subscribers, small paper repairs or closed tears repaired to U2-6, not affecting text, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inside gilt dentelles, late 19th/early 20th century full polished calf by Morrell, with gilt decorated spine and red morocco title and date label, minor worm track to extreme foot of rear joint (overall a very attractive copy), 8vo (Qty: 1) ESTC T125274. The first Edinburgh edition (second edition overall) of Burns' Poems, a first issue, with 'Duke of Boxburgh' instead of 'Duke of Roxburgh' in the list of subscribers, and 'skinking' instead of 'stinking' on page 263. The first edition of Burns' Poems had sold out within a month, but despite this the publisher John Wilson was unwilling to issue a second edition unless the author advanced £27 to purchase the paper needed for a larger run of 1000 copies. This second edition, which includes 22 new poems, received a large number of subscriptions, requiring the printer to reset and reprint 34 of the 51 half-sheet quires to meet the revised print run of 3000 copies.
Burns (Robert). Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1st Edinburgh edition, Edinburgh, printed for the Author, and sold by William Creech, 1787, half-title, aquatint portrait frontispiece by J. Beugo after Alexander Nasmyth list of subscribers, small paper repairs or closed tears repaired to U2-6, not affecting text, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inside gilt dentelles, late 19th/early 20th century full polished calf by Morrell, with gilt decorated spine and red morocco title and date label, minor worm track to extreme foot of rear joint (overall a very attractive copy), 8vo (Qty: 1) ESTC T125274. The first Edinburgh edition (second edition overall) of Burns' Poems, a first issue, with 'Duke of Boxburgh' instead of 'Duke of Roxburgh' in the list of subscribers, and 'skinking' instead of 'stinking' on page 263. The first edition of Burns' Poems had sold out within a month, but despite this the publisher John Wilson was unwilling to issue a second edition unless the author advanced £27 to purchase the paper needed for a larger run of 1000 copies. This second edition, which includes 22 new poems, received a large number of subscriptions, requiring the printer to reset and reprint 34 of the 51 half-sheet quires to meet the revised print run of 3000 copies.
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