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Poems of Robert Burns

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Lot 46 | Poems of Robert Burns
Poems of Robert Burns

Sangorski & Sutcliffe Cosway-style binding

SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. BURNS, Robert (1759-1796). Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, 1787.



First Edinburgh edition in a fine, jeweled Cosway-style portrait binding. The inside front cover features a delicate watercolor bust portrait of the poet surrounded by a jeweled laurel wreath. This is a fine copy in a special binding. Rothschild 556.



Octavo (206 x 127mm). Without half-title. Engraved portrait frontispiece after Alexander Nasmyth. Full crushed green morocco gilt with thistle devices and other tools, decorative purple morocco onlay incorporating a central medallion on the upper cover with the poet’s initials, spine similarly gilt in six compartments, all edges gilt. The upper doublure with recessed panel set with an oval portrait miniature on ivorine of Robert Burns, this surrounded with a gilt laurel wreath and four jewels. Both doublures of brown crushed morocco, the turn-ins gilt including lines from "To a Mouse" and "Auld Lang Syne" within borders of gilt roll; flyleaves of apricot moiré silk. Quarter morocco box by Zaehnsdorf. Provenance: Paul Chevalier (bookplate, his sale, Christie's New York, 9 November 1990, lot 81) – Christie’s New York, 7 October 1994, lot 27.

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