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ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS & SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES
ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS & SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES
Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783-1785; Reproduced in Facsimile from the Poet's Manuscript with Transcript, Centaur Press, 1965

Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783-1785; Reproduced in Facsimile from the Poet's Manuscript with Transcript, Centaur Press, 1965

LAN9833
$56.00 - $56.00
$56.00
$56.00 - $56.00
$56.00

Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783-1785; Reproduced in Facsimile from the Poet's Manuscript with Transcript and the Original Introduction and Notes of James Cameron Ewing and Davidson Cook. This edition introduced by David Daiches.

Published by Centaur Press Limited, 1965. First edition thus. Issued as one of 'Centaur Classics – General editor: J.M. Cohen.

A near fine copy of this folio sized reproduction of Burns's commonplace book. Bound in navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With just minor wear. Soundly bound. With red paper endpapers and previous owner's sticker to first pastedown.

With portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Text is clean and bright throughout. Some light speckled spotting to edge of text block. Blue tinted to top edge.

Language: English/Scots.

xxix + (1) + 43pp + Plates of manuscript reproductions. 

Dimensions: approximately 380mm high x 259mm wide x 13mm deep.

Weight approximately 1260g (unpacked).