Robert Burns

The second edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, by Robert Burns.

• Robert Burns (Scottish).
• Edinburgh: Printed for the author and sold by William Creech, 1787.
• Octavo.
• xlviii, 10-368 pages.
• Frontispiece portrait of Burns engraved by Beugo after Alexander Nasmyth”s drawing, with half-title; with an inserted watercolor sketch depicting the witches in the church from "Tam O'Shanter."
• Second (First Edinburgh) edition, first issue (with the Duke of Roxburgh's name misspelled "Boxburgh" on p. xxxvii, the Addenda to the subscription list at p. xlvi and the "Stinking" reading on page 263). 
• Bound in full citron crushed levant morocco, gilt spine, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, others uncut, by the Club Bindery, 1901.

The first affordable edition of Burns' works. The Kilmarnock Burns was published in 1786 and is rare and costly. This is the second edition, the first with a portrait of the author, and in a handsome binding with a stellar provenance. An important edition: 27 pieces not included in the Kilmarnock are printed here for the first t.mes . This copy from the library of Grolier Club founder Robert Hoe, bound at the Club Bindery established in New York with artisans of the highest accomplishment.