douglas william scott ed (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Nice unmarked copy lightly faded spine; no jacket; very browned endpapers. 1912 edition form Menzies of edinburgh and Glasgow and D. Brown Kilmarnock.

Hardcover. Kilmarnock Popular Edition. 12mo. Vol. I: b&w frontis, xcvi, 407pp, errata (i), top edges gilt. Vol. II: b&w portrait frontis, xxii, 478pp, errata (i). Full calf with gilt rules and titles, very good, bright and fresh gilt. Internally, clean, no fox spotting. One small article laid in at last page of Vol. II, o/w very good.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. Smart first edition thus copies of five volumes of a six-volume set containing the poetry and prose of the notable Robert Burns. The first edition thus of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. All volumes contain a frontispiece and a title page vignette. In addition, Volume I contains one folding plate and six further illustrations; Volume II contains four illustrations; Volume III contains one plate and two folding plates; Volume IV contains one plate and one folding plate; Volume V contains two illustrations and one folding plate. Collated, complete. Volumes I to V of a six-volume set of the poetry and prose of Robert Burns, with a life of the poet. Volume I contains the biography of Burns, and his poetry and songs, which continue into Volumes II and III. Volumes IV and V contain his prose and correspondence. These volumes were edited by William Scott Douglas. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally fairly smart, with light shelf wear to the extremities, boards and head and tail of the spine. Spines of Volumes II, III and IV are slightly faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean, except for offsetting to the end papers. Very Good. book.