Lot 215
[Burns, Robert]1st Edition Reliques of Robert Burns, 1808. Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and Critical Observations on Scottish Songs. Collected and Published by R.H. Cromek. London: Printed by J M'Creery, For T. Cadell, and W. Davies, Strand, 1808. (xxiv), 453 pp. 8½ x 5½ in. Full leather covers are scuffed, modern spine with gilt letters and decorations. Bookplate of T.W. Dewar pasted to inside cover. Some offsetting to end pages; toning and foxing, darker in poetry section. Pencilled notes from a previous owner. After Currie, Cromek's is the most important early edition of Burns.
Egerer 123.
Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500.
Ex Collection of Henrik Minc.
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