The Life of Robert Burns. Edited With Notes and Appendices by William Scott Douglas and an Essay on Robert Burns by Sir Walter Raleigh. Illustrated With Thirty-One Plates.

LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON

Published by Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, 1914

About this Item

First limited edition thus, numbered 430 of 500 and signed by publisher to limitation page. Complete in two volumes, leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (230 x 150 mm), pp. [lxxv], 256; [vii], 270. Finely bound in red half-morocco, spine with five raised bands, the compartments gilt ruled, tooled and lettered, top edges gilt, other edges unevenly cut, coloured pastedowns and endpapers, half-titles present, illustrated with 31 plates with captioned tissue-guards, including portraits and facsimile MS, appendix and index to rear of vol.II, footnotes. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., Edinburgh. Condition: NEAR FINE. Bindings tight and secure, the hinges perfect. Covers near immaculate, with tiniest hint of marking to cloth. Contents immaculately preserved. Without previous ownership markings. An exquisite set.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Life of Robert Burns. Edited With Notes and Appendices by William Scott Douglas and an Essay on Robert Burns by Sir Walter Raleigh. Illustrated With Thirty-One Plates.
• Publisher: Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons
• Publication Date: 1914
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Limited Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
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