The Cotter's Saturday Night: A Poem

Robert Burns

Published by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, 1872

About this Item

A lovely richly illustrated edition of Robert Burns' poem, first published a century prior to this edition. Robert Burns (1759-1796) was active in the second half of the eighteenth century, and is widely celebrated as being the national poet of Scotland, writing primarily in English using a Scots dialect, and a pioneer of the Romantic movement. He penned the lyrics to 'Auld Lang Syne', the popular ditty sung on New Year's Eve. He influenced many later Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, and his influence spread as far as the USA and Russia. This volume comprises his poem, 'The Cotter's Saturday Night', first published in 1786 in 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect'. With a decorative pictorial cover. Contains a profuse number of illustrations drawn by F. A. Chapman and engraved by J. Filmer. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart, minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Gift inscription to the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound, pages are generally bright and clean bar the odd instance of spotting. Near Fine. Seller Inventory # 756R34

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Cotter's Saturday Night: A Poem

Publisher: Porter & Coates, Philadelphia

Publication Date: 1872

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: F. A. Chapman; J. Filmer

Condition: Near Fine

Book Type: book