The Works.
Edinburgh, William Paterson, 1877-9 Stock Code: 139102
Notes
First William Scott Douglas edition, a very fine edition, well printed on superior paper, and here abundantly extra-illustrated. The edition is described by ODNB as a "splendid, six-volume library edition. The poems in this edition are arranged chronologically, and while it was the most sumptuous yet published it was also the most complete and correct regarding both text and notes". Douglas (1815-1883) "worked as a mercantile accountant, like his father before him, but in his leisure time he put much effort into studying the life and works of Burns, acquiring perhaps a more thorough mastery of them than any previous editor of Burns's works" (ibid.). A number of the original illustrations are by William Forrest, who specialized in landscapes, after Samuel Bough, "one of the most influential figures in the development of nineteenth-century Scottish landscape painting... who enjoyed tremendous popularity as an artist" (National Galleries Scotland).Description
6 volumes, octavo (228 x 153 mm). Early 20th-century red half morocco by Root & Son, spines lettered in gilt, gilt thistle motifs to compartments, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt.
Illustrations
Engraved frontispiece to each volume (2 portraits of Burns, 4 landscapes), 11 engraved plates (6 as oval vignettes facing frontispieces), 2 maps, 11 facsimile examples of handwriting; each title with vignette of Erato (Muse of lyric poetry) by R. Anderson
Condition
A fine set.
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