Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. /
Burns, Robert,1759-1796.
Arbuthnot, Robert,former owner.StEdNL: L.C.1533
Pender,binder.StEdNL: L.C.1533
Hastings, Warren,active 1841,former owner.StEdNL: NG.1168.e.22
Taylor, James,former owner.StEdNL: NG.1168.e.22
Ramage and Co.,binder.StEdNL: Acc.14167
Scott, William,active 1775-1790?,binder.StEdNL: RB.m.802
Edmonstone, Campbell,1719-1796,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.802
Allis, William W.,1849-1918,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.802
Clawson, John L.(John Lewis),1865-1933,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.802
Clark, William Andrews,1877-1934,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.802
Webster, Paul Francis,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.802
Edinburgh: : Printed for the author, and sold by William Creech.,
M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]
Penultimate word of page 263, stanza 8, line 3: "skinking".
With a half title: Poems, chiefly Scottish.
With a frontis. port.
With a list of subscribers.
ESTC
Egerer
Bound into the volume are: a letter, 1791, of Burns to Thomas Sloan, two letters of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and a letter, undated, of Robert Chambers.
Includes a letter of Burns to Maria Riddell, undated but circa January 1795.
Armorial bookplate on front pastedown of Robert Arbuthnot, one of the original subscribers.
Ink inscription at head of title: Warren Hastings January 1841. Ink inscription in 20th-century hand at head of recto of front flyleaf preceding half title: James Taylor.
Contemporary ink inscription at head of half title: Campbell Edmonstone. Part of the H. Sidney, sale (“Remaining portion of the valuable Library”), Sotheby, 26/5/1903, lot 14 (without the letter), £14/15/- to ‘Hornstein’. Later Provenance of the book & letter: 1: William W. Allis (1849–1918) of Milwaukee, industrial and agricultural machinery manufacturer (Allis-Chalmers Company), sale, Anderson Galleries, New York (25/3/1912, together with the ALS, lot 139, $340) bought by Rosenbach? (pencil notes on rear board “rare in this state”) and sold to:  2: John L. Clawson (1865–1933) of Buffalo, New York, with his leather book label on the front pastedown; in his sale of later English literature at Anderson Galleries, New York, 29/11/1920, lot 46, $365.  3: William Andrews Clark, Jr (1877–1934), of Los Angeles, philanthropist and bibliophile, younger son of the copper baron and senator William Andrews Clark Sr, with his leather label on the front pastedown; not included in his printed catalogue of Modern Books (4 vols., 1920–28); W. A. Clark Jr left his collection of rare books to UCLA which today form the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.  4: Paul Francis Webster (1907–1984), American lyricist, with his leather label on the front pastedown, sale Sotheby, New York, 24/4/1985, lot 7 (unsold; estimate $2000-$3000).  5: Charles J. Sawyer, London bookseller (fl. 1906–90), Catalogue New Series 8/156 (?1989), £5500.  6: Later in a private US collection and recently sold on behalf of the collector’s estate by a dealer in Maine. Bought by the Library from Maggs, September 2021.
Bound by Pender of Edinburgh.
Contemporary tree-calf with modern reback preserving original spine label.
Full crimson morocco by Ramage and Company. Spines decorated gilt in compartments, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, contained in a black morocco, silk lined box, lettered in gilt "Burns Poems - 1787".
Bound by William Scott of Edinburgh in original boards with spine label. See Loudon, J.H. James Scott and William Scott, Bookbinders, p.360. Joints later over sewn by an early owner. Edges uncut. Housed in blue morocco pull-off case.
Scotland Edinburgh.