The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings. To which are prefixed, some observations on the character and condition of the Scottish peasantry. In four volumes . The seventh edition

Burns, Robert

Published by T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand; and W. Creech, at Edinburgh, London, 1813

About this Item

4 volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, 396; xxiv, 470; xii, 422; xxiv, 414, [2] Cadell and Davies ads; woodcut vignettes on title pages, engraved frontispiece portrait by J. Neagle after A. Nasmyth; original red paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; volume I with upper joint cracked, top of spine chipped and with a small waterstain at the top, piece missing from the bottom of the spine and recolored; the other volumes variously soiled and stained, with small cracks; good and sound and internally clean except for several internal gatherings of volume IV which are quite spotted. In the first volume are several newsprint cuttings pasted to the endpapers, together with manuscript notes on James Hogg who has sailed for India; Colonel William Nicol Burns, second son of Burns; the family of Burns; Burns's last moments; and, a lengthy passage on his habit of taking whisky - all these on the front and rear flyleaves and endpapers. On the pastedown and at the back of volume IV is another newspaper cutting pasted in, a poem "The Death of Burns," signed Omega. The notes on the death of Burns and the whisky drinking apparently come from Cunningham's edition of Burns.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings. To which are prefixed, some observations on the character and condition of the Scottish peasantry. In four volumes . The seventh edition
• Publisher: T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand; and W. Creech, at Edinburgh, London
• Publication Date: 1813
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature
  • Poetry