Description
4 vols., 8vo, [ii], viii, 389, [1] + frontispiece; [ii], xxiii, [i], 467, [1]; xvi, 431, [1]; xxiv, 415, [1]. Later black boards, printed paper labels to spines. Labels toned, one label chipped, just a touch of wear to extremities.
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 second edition.
- London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies 1801
- Lamont 62; Egerer 89.
£250
Notes
A tidy set of the second edition of the first collected works of Burns, following the 1800 Liverpool edition. The textual changes between the editions were minor, and the frontispiece is in fact the same plate (with its own imprint dated 1800) reused across the three. 'The content is in the same order, but the differences reflect this new edition, most notably in the new advertisement, the lack of a list of subscribers, and the added appendix' (Lamont).
