Poems, chiefly by Robert Burns, and Peter Pindar, &c. &c. : To which is added the Life of Robert Burns..
Burns, Robert,1759-1796.
Heron, Robert,1764-1807.Memoir of the life of the late Robert Burns.
Pindar, Peter,1738-1819.
Lewis, M. G.(Matthew Gregory),1775-1818.Alonzo the brave and fair Imogine.
Holcroft, Thomas,1745-1809.Gaffer Gray.
Harrison, Christopher,former owner.StEdNL
London: : Printed for the booksellers,,
1798..
An unrecorded, presumably pirated, collection of nine of Burns's most famous poems. The contents page lists a "Life of Robert Burns" on pages 3-4 but in fact on pages [5]-xx there is an unacknowledged reprint of Robert Heron's "A memoir of the life of the late Robert Burns" (Edinburgh, 1787), the earliest printed biography of the poet. The composition of the book suggests that it was hastily cobbled together. As well as the Burns poems there are four poems by 'Peter Pinder', i.e. John Wolcot, and, uncredited, Matthew Lewis's "Alonzo the brave". The collection also includes the Border ballads "Lord Gregory/Lass of Lochroyan", which both Burns and Wolcott produced versions of, and the "Battle of Otterburn". On page 53 there is the text of a poem "Saint Genevieve of the woods" which was first published in ca. 1780 with the title "The saint of the woods, or The loves of Siffred and the maid of Brabant", as well as three other anonymous poems:  "Contented cottager", "Poem translated from the Persion", and "The blind boy". "Gaffer Gray" is a satirical song by Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809) which first appeared in print in 1794.
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An unrecorded, presumably pirated, collection of nine of Burns's most famous poems. The contents page lists a "Life of Robert Burns" on pages 3-4 but in fact on pages [5]-xx there is an unacknowledged reprint of Robert Heron's "A memoir of the life of the late Robert Burns" (Edinburgh, 1787), the earliest printed biography of the poet. The composition of the book suggests that it was hastily cobbled together. As well as the Burns poems there are four poems by 'Peter Pinder', i.e. John Wolcot, and, uncredited, Matthew Lewis's "Alonzo the brave". The collection also includes the Border ballads "Lord Gregory/Lass of Lochroyan", which both Burns and Wolcott produced versions of, and the "Battle of Otterburn". On page 53 there is the text of a poem "Saint Genevieve of the woods" which was first published in ca. 1780 with the title "The saint of the woods, or The loves of Siffred and the maid of Brabant", as well as three other anonymous poems:  "Contented cottager", "Poem translated from the Persion", and "The blind boy". "Gaffer Gray" is a satirical song by Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809) which first appeared in print in 1794.
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown of "Christopher Harrison".
England London.