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London: Printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell; and W. Creech, 1787. Third Edition; First London Edition, First State (with "stinking" instead of "skinking" in "To a Haggis"). 210 x 126 mm. (8 1/4 x 5"). xlviii, [13]-372 pp. With half title and the subscriber list [to the Edinburgh edition]. VERY FINE RED CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY RIVIERE & SON (stamp-signed on front turn-in), cover with French fillet border, raised bands, spine compartments with acorn-and-lancet central ornament, floral vines at corners, gilt lettering, turn-ins with complex gilt roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Burns. Gibson, p. 6; Egerer 2. ◆Perhaps pressed (not washed), but AN ESPECIALLY FINE COPY, quite clean and fresh internally, IN A SPARKLING BINDING with no signs of use. This is one of the most famous poetic publications in history, offered here in a most attractive copy of the first London printing (following an Edinburgh edition the same year and the…

This is one of the most famous collections of poetry by Robert Burns, which includes many of his most famous Scots verse and English-language poems.