Antique Poetry Book: The Complete Works of Robert Burns Ca. 1890 Thomas Y Crowell (includes letters & songs)

Title: The Complete Works of Robert Burns

Author: Robert Burns; Alexander Smith (editor)

Description: No date (circa 1890). Green cloth boards stamped in black and gilt (the lower half of the front board is illustrated with a flower enwreathed by vines and flowers and topped by scrolling ribbons). All edges gilt. Light wear to corners and edges of the head and foot of spine. Gilt is still bright. A few pinhead, dark spots on the fore-edge. Faint smudge on ffep, otherwise the interior is clean. lxii, 636, plus [4] pp. publisher's advertising.

Includes a 34 page biography and a 12 page chronological table of Burns' life and works by Alexander Smith. Includes poems, songs, and letters. The title on the spine reads "Burns' Poems".

The title pages states that this edition is "edited from the best printed and manuscript authorities, with glossorial index and a biographical memoir, by Alexander Smith.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Place: New York
Year: No date; ca. 1890

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: poetry, Scottish, classics, publishers binding,