[BURNS, ROBERT]. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, and Sold by William Creech, 1787.
SECOND (FIRST EDINBURGH) EDITION, first issue (with the Duke of Roxburgh's name misspelled "Boxburgh" on p. xxxvii, the Addenda to the subscription list at p. xlvi and the "Stinking" reading on page 263). Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (21.5 x 13 x 4 cm); pp. xlviii, 368. English text. Bound in contemporary full calf; smooth spine with gilt bands and red morocco lettering-piece; rear glossary in double columns. Condition: GOOD. Upper joint slightly split at the ends. Covers somewhat rubbed. Lacking the portrait frontispiece, otherwise complete. Interior lightly toned. Interesting provenance inked to front pastedown. A few old annotations mostly in pencil. Scarce.
Notes: Second edition, first state, and the first Edinburgh edition preceded only by the rare Kilmarnock edition of the previous year (1786); with the three important first issue points and bound in contemporary covers. Creech was the printer and Burns was his own editor and publisher. An important issue with 27 pieces not included in the Kilmarnock edition printed here for the first time.
