The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-30
$500 FOR ORIGINAL
EDINBURGH BURNS
EoOk Was Poets Own Copy
and Contains Numerous
Marginal Notes.
AUTOGRAPH POEM. S76S

COPY Of the first Edinburgh edition
o. Robert Burns's poems. which was
Rutns's own copy and which contains
numerous marginal notes and additions.
including two autograph stanzas of
ram samson's Eleey.' brought the
hishcst price yesterday at the Hunting
,ou.BiNby sale Of rare books n auto
graphs at the Anderson Galleries, where
II Vas purchased by George y. Smith
for $500. II was a presentation COPY
from a MIR. Bsyley to J. wadsworth, the
poet. who has inscribed on the nyleaf a
sonnet to the siver in appreciation o.
the gift.
other Burns items attrac.cd much at
,en,icn and brought high prices. An auto
graph manuscript poem signed IN two
places 10y Burns was purchased by George
n. Smith for s1S5. The superscription. in
Eurns's own handwriting. states that
they were lines written to the Earl of
Brchan on the occasion of the unveilins
ot a bust to the poet Thomson.
\ cupy of Burns's poems OF the Hrst
volume Of the third edition. which had
been nibbled by a rouse and which the
poet used for making corrections for
the last edition. WAS probably enhanced
IN value by the damage done. as the bid
ding for 1t was spirited. II WAS pur-
chased 10y George ID. Smith for $500.
=. Murdoch, who owned the volume.
sem !, to Archibald Constable, the pub
Usher. with the following "a
mouse has made dreadful d~epredations
on y number Of the leaves. which was
certainly unkind. considering the affec-
Tomato name in which the poet has
addressed one OF the race" There are
forty.onc corrections in the volume made
b, Burns himself.
\ Burns letter written on June 10,
l7Ss. to Mrs. Dunlop of Dunlop. was
sold to q. u. Smith for s52o.
NJ the afternoon sale "A rare first cdi-
ton OF the Aiken Colored Plates. re-
la,ing to sporting events. was purchased
hy ". u. Bailey for S115. The series
contains forty-two plates. Before copies
~ tie edition could circulate almost thu
entire first issue was destroyed ~ fire
and the copy sold is II of the two which
have been sold in this country.
4 set Of fourteen volumes, TIT
annals of Sporting. a Magazine Contain
.ns Everything Worthy of Remark on
Hunting. Shooting. etc" Wit colored
plates by Aiken. Cruikshank and others,
was bought by Mr.. Smith for $o23. A
copy Of The Humorist." illustrated by
Cruikshank, OF the rare first issue. with
the b~ookplate of r.. II. Church. was
bought by Mr.. Smith for $3.50. A col
lccted set of first editions of George
Eliot. considered choice on account OF
the difficulty to obtain many of the
volumes, was bought by Mr.. Smith for
$40.
Surtee's "Jorrock's Jaunts.' u copy
81 the second edition, but containing ;ht
first Aiken plates. was bought by Rosen'
sporting novels, all first editions, were
bought by Mr.. Smith for s2?0.
\ first edition copy OF the unusua'
volume. THE English Spy" by West.
macot,. a satirical sketch. brought 1870
l.. NJ. Thompson was the buyer. The
illustrations are by Cruikshank. Ar
original manuscript by Sir Edwin Arnold
RI the Light OF the World' was bought
by Mr.. Smith for $500.
An original Beethoven manuscrip,
was purchased by an anonymous buyer
FOR 5000. The original manuscript ot
Sir Walter Besant's Dorothy Forster
consisting OF 500 pages. was bought by
Mr.. smith for SlS5.
Three Eugene Field manuscripts were
eagerly sought. "The Oak Tree and the
Ivy" was bought by George D.. Smith
for SEQ. The manuscript poem AZ ths
Door, brought s1o7.50 and the poem
Grant, in Fields own autograph
brought Sis. All were purchased BY
G. u. Smith.
The total sales for the day amounted
m 81. $50 ~