[BURNS, ROBERT] — D.S. BUCHAN | Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the Poet Thomson: biographical, critical, and political. With some pieces of Thomson's never before published. London: J. Debrett, 1792

[BURNS, ROBERT] — D.S. BUCHAN 

Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the Poet Thomson: biographical, critical, and political. With some pieces of Thomson's never before published. London: J. Debrett, 1792

8vo (9 x 5 1/2 in.; 228 x 140 mm). Half-title, mezzotint frontispiece portrait of Andrew Fletcher printed in bistre; minor spotting and offsetting. Original marbled boards, paper label to spine, some edges uncut, overall rubbed. Custom slipcase. 

First edition in original boards. A rare Burns item. This work contains a printed letter by Robert Burns, as well as his poem on James Thomson, consisting of five 4-line stanzas (pp. 244-8).

PROVENANCE

J.D. Brodie (ownership inscription to front pastedown) — Replica Shoes 's New York, 13-14 November 1935, lot 40