Published by Blackie & Son, Glasgow, 1840
Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, 1840. vi,105 and clviii,72 pages. Engraved frontispieces, extra titlepages, 77 plates with tisues. 10.75 x 9.5", half leather, spine labels, marbled paper boards. Covers rubbed, modest, mostly marginal foxing, VG.
Published by Blackie & Con, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London, 1840
Leather. Condition: Good Only. David Octavius Hill (illustrator). A lovely illustrated biography of the life and work of Robert Burns complete in two volumes. Early edition of The Land of Burns, a Series of Landscapes and Portraits, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of The Scottish Poet in half calf bindings and marbled boards.Complete in two volumes.By Professor John Wilson and Robert Chambers.The landscapes from paintings made expressly for the work by David Octavius Hill, the Scottish painter and photographer.A lovely biography of the life and writings of Robert Burns, an eighteenth century poet, well regarded as the national poet of Scotland and pioneer of the Romantic movement.Volume I has forty seven monochrome plates and Volume II has thirty three out of the thirty five plates listed. The plates facing page vii and page twenty of Volume II are missing. Collated. Volume I is complete. In half calf bindings and marbled boards. Externally, sound. The rear board to Volume II is detached, and the front board is working loose, with the front hinge held by cords only, a crack to the front joint and wear to the spine. Volume II is also missing one of the spine labels and half of the second spine label. There is rubbing to the heads and tails of the spines and to the extremities of both volumes. The boards are also quite worn. The hinges of Volume I are strained but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with some light spotting. Good Only. book.
Published by Glasgow: Blackie & Son Queen Street South College Street Edinburgh; And Warwick Square London MDCCCXL, 1840
Two volumes bound together. A very good full leather binding. 4to. 11.0" x 9.0" x 2.25". pp.vi./pp.ii./pp.vii - pp.clviii/105/pp.vi./pp.72 + 83 steel engravings. Dark purple morocco with gilt blocking. Spine with 5 raised bands gilt blocked compartments and gilt title: "Land Of Burns". All page edges gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Original yellow endpapers soiled. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper: "Rockfield". Engraved frontis and title followed by a printed title-page. Second title-page after p.105 . Clear English text. Tissue guards browned, but engravings with just light soiling. VG. ** Referenced by: Blackie, A. (1959) Blackie & Son 1809-1959: a short history of the firm. Glasgow: Blackie & Son pp.13-14 / Referenced by: NSTC 2H21409 / Referenced by: OCLC 935088743.