Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. /
Burns, Robert,1759-1796.
M'Lehose, Agnes,1759-1841,former owner.StEdNL: H.30.f.1
Keith, Henry Shanks,Sir,1852-1944,donor.StEdNL: H.30.f.1
Burns, Robert,1759-1796,annotator.StEdNL: H.30.f.1
Nicol, William,1744-1797,former owner.StEdNL: AB.2.213.59-60
Thomson,Mr.(George),1757-1851,former owner.StEdNL: L.C.165
Edinburgh: : Printed for T. Cadell, London, and William Creech, Edinburgh.,
M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]
Each volume has a half title: Poems, chiefly Scottish.
Volume 1 has a frontispiece portrait.
Includes a glossary at the end of volume 2.
Egerer
ESTC
Presentation copy from Burns to Agnes M'Lehose with minor annotations by Burns on pages 162, 170 and 241 of volume 2. Ink inscription at head of volume 1 half title: A present from the author. Ink inscription at head of volume 1 title page: Mrs McLe[cropped]. Ink inscription at head of volume 2 title page: Mrs McLehose June 1802. Pencil marks around some verses of The Cotter's Saturday Night in volume 2. Pencil inscription on front pastedown: Presented to the National Library by Sir Henry Keith Avonholm, Hamilton 26 Oct 1925.
Presentation copy to a Mrs Bain by William Nicol, friend of Burns. Ink inscription on front free endpaper: This copy of Burns's poems is presented, with the highest respect, to Mrs Bain, by a sincere friend and admirer of her virtuous, learned and highly ingenious husband. William Nicol. Edin. 27th September 1793.
Ink inscription at head of half title: [undeciphered name] presented to me at [?] by Mr George Thomson as a farewell remembrancer.
Dark brown tree calf, red labels and gilt to spines, gilt borders.
Scotland Edinburgh.