Lot 177
[Burns, Robert], Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. In two Volumes. The second Edition, considerably engarged. Edinburgh: Printed for T. Cadell, London, and William Creech, Edinburgh. M,DCC,XCIII. Second Edinburgh Edition. [E25] [M52135] [C8]. "In March or April, Creech seems to have written to Burns asking him what new poems he could provide for a new edition and how much he wanted for them, and Burns replied; "I suppose, at a gross guess that I could addof new materials to your two volumes, about fifty pages. I would also correct & retrench a good deal….A few books which I very much want, are all the recompence I crave, together with as many copies of this new edition of my own works as Friendship or Gratitude shall prompt me to present." [E].
Volume II. Original Material: Lament of Mary queen of Scots on the approach of Spring; Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn; On seeing a Wounded Hare limp by me, which a fellow has just shot at; On the late Captain Grose's Peregrinations thro' Scotland, collecting the Antiquities of that Kingdom; The Humble Petition of Bruar Water to the Noble Duke of Athole; etc.
Half title and portrait engraved by J. Beugo in Volume I; half title in Volume II. 7½ x 4¾ in. (18.3 x 11.1 cm). trimmed. Volume I has a previous owner's name and light pencilled notes on flyleaf. Volume II has small old tape repair at right margin of page 25. Modern quarter calf and marbled covers.
Estimated Value $800 - 1,000,
From the Collection of Henrik Minc,
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