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The Life and Works of Robert Burns, Robert Chambers, 1856, 2 Vols bound as one.

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The Life and Works of Robert Burns. Edited by Robert Chambers. Library Edition. In Four Volumes. Offered here are Volumes one and two only, bound as one book.

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Published by W. and R. Chambers, Edinburgh and London, 1856. 'Library edition'.

A good hardback with black leather spine and corners. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration and morocco title labels. With cloth over boards. Covers rubbed and bumped with cloth with some soiling and marks. Soundly bound. Marbled endpapers and marbled edges to text block. Small bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown. Endpapers and frontispiece with spotting. Tissue guard to frontispiece.

Text is clean and bright throughout with some scattered spotting. Page 174 and 175 with offset stating due to loose related newspaper article being loosely inserted into the book. Some small pencil annotations.

Language: English.

Vol I: xiv + 362pp;

Vol II: xiii + 322pps.

Dimensions: approximately 227mm high x 152mm wide x 50mm deep.

Unpacked weight approximately 1176g (unpacked).