The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, With Notes, Glossary, Index of First Lines, and Chronological List de Robert Burns - 2012-01-10

London : Oxford University Press, 1917. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1917. 635 pages. No dust jacket. Brown leather with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been heavily rub worn with heavy shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a heavily frayed and spine ends are crushed, with some small splits and chips. Loss to headband. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1950. (UK) Later Printing Owner's four word inscription to front fly, not other markings, Very Good with remnant of flower petal adhered to the back cover which also has three very small faint spots. no dust jacket as published. Full green leather with gold borders, ribbed spine with gold titles, all edge gilt, gold ribbon, 635pp. Nice copy. (1.8 JM HOQ 100/a3. Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Oxford University Press, 1926. xx, 635pp, chronoogy, index, notes. Or blue boards decorated in blind and gilt. Occasional minor foxing. Nice older collection of the poetry of great Scots poet, Robbie Burns.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

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Oxford University Press, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Oxford University Press 1926. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. Inscribed by previous owner on flyleaf.

London: Oxford University Press, (1960). Reprint. Hardcover. Owner name on verso of front endpaper with generic bookplate on facing blank; minor wear to joints. A lovely binding in Near Fine condition. Bound in full polished calf leather (4-3/4" x 7-1/4") by Frost & Co. with double gilt-ruled borders, gilt decoration on the spine with a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; xx, 635, [1] pages. Edited by J. Logie Robertson.

London: Oxford University Press, 1939. 14th Printing. 180 x 120 mm. (7 1/8 x 4 3/4"). xx, 636 pp.Edited by J. Logie Robertson. Attractive burnt orange morocco, covers with gilt filet border, raised bands, gilt in compartments with central fleuron, floral gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt. With frontispiece portrait of Robert Burns. ◆Spine sunned to even tan color, very slight scratches on boards, small tear on fore margin of three leaves, not affecting text, otherwise very fine inside and out. This is an attractively bound edition of poetry by the immortal Scottish bard, Robert Burns, issued by an outstanding scholarly press. This edition was compiled and edited by Logie Robertson (1846-1922), a literary scholar and writer, who, in the words of DNB, was "an important figure in the reinvigoration and renationalization of Scottish cultural life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries" through his editions of poetry by the likes of Allan Ramsey, Walter Scott, Thomas Campbell, and Burns. A… Leer más