BURNS, ROBERT.

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.

Edinburgh William Creech 1787 (xxxix), 368pp. First Edinburgh edition. With frontispiece portrait of Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, engraved by John Beugo. This is the first issue of this edition, with "Boxburgh" on page xxxvii of the List of Subscribers, and "skinking" on page 263. Bolstered by the success of the small Kilmarnock edition of the same title, published the previous year, the projected number of copies for the edition was to be 1500, a number that was soon dwarfed by the 2800 subscribers for the book. The resetting of the edition resulted in the second state, in which "skinking" was incorrectly "corrected" to read "stinking" in the poem "To a Haggis." Scattered light foxing to several leaves, else an internally clean copy, complete with half-title, and bound in contemporary full calf, which shows some wear to corners, some scuffing to covers, and light wear along outer hinges. (Egerer 2).

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