The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. With a Memoir by J. Loughran Scott. In Three Volumes.
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1910. Hardcover. 32mo. Near Fine. Item #017743
Alloway Edition [ca. 1910]. Attractive burgundy leather, richly interlaced thistle design in gilt on front board and spine, lettered with volume numbers on spine, T.E.G., red silk ribbon markers, illustrated title pages printed in red and black on white page, xxxvi, [7] 366pp; vii, [7] 353pp; 372pp, [3] frontispieces of Robert Burns with captioned tissue guards, title page depicts a kneeling woman with a bowed lute beneath a leafy canopy within a floral border, signed JBG, owner inscribed on front free end-papers, a faint dampstain along top-edge of title page in first two volumes, very faint toning, gilt is bright, with binding square and sound, slight bruising at spine ends, light rubbing to extremities. Near Fine. Housed in a custom burgundy slipcase, a high resolution color printed portrait of Burns adorns the front. An attractive reissue of the compelling Alloway Edition, roughly two decades into the early twentieth century; this beautiful set is a carefully well kept presentation of the Scottish national poet in its decorative publisher's cloth.
Price (CAD): $250.00