Lavish tribute to the Scottish bard
BURNS, Robert. The Works of Robert Burns with numerous notes and illustrations. London: Blackie and Son. 1866.
Large 8vo. 2 vols. Contemporary half green calf, spines with gilt raised bands and contrasting red and black gilt morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; pp. cclxxvi, iv, 149; xx, 412; frontispiece portraits of Burns, engraved title pages, facsimile of Burns's handwriting in Vol II, illustrated throughout; sunning to spine, rubbing to extremities, very good.
Reprint. With a long biographical essay, poems in tribute to Burns and copious illustrations, this is a lavish tribute to the Scottish bard on the 70th anniversary of his death.
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