First edition. Four volumes. Quarto. In the very attractive publisher’s green pebble-grained cloth, decorated in red, gold and black, lettered gilt to the spine, with a gilt portrait of Burns to the upper cover.
A near fine set, very well-preserved and in uncommonly nice condition.
A very attractive presentation of Burns’s life and poems.
This work was available by Subscription, and offered in fifteen parts at Two Shillings each, or, as here, in four volumes priced at Ten Shillings and Sixpence each.
The National Burns
Author
Robert Burns; George Gilfillan
Publisher
London: William Mackenzie
Date
1880
