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BURNS, ROBERT Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: Printed for the author and sold by Robert Creech, 1787. Sec... Edinburgh: Printed for the author and sold by Robert Creech, 1787. Second edition, the first Edinburgh edition, first issue (with "skinking" at p. 263 and "Boxburgh" rather than "Roxburgh" in the list of subscribers). Contemporary tree calf gilt with red morocco lettering label. 8 x 4 3/4 inches (20 x 12 1/2 cm); frontispiece portrait, without half-title, xlviii, [1], 10-368 pp. Upper joint split and lower joint starting, faint signature to title, some minor spotting and stray thumbsoiling, closed tear into lower margin of p. 191, a very clean copy overall. When the publisher of the first edition of this work refused to reprint it unless Burns advanced the money for the paper, Burns took the work to Robert Creech in Edinburgh to print this second edition of 3000 copies, most of which were delivered to the subscribers named in the 38 page list present here. This second edition also contains twenty-two poems not found in the first edition. C