[LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON]. The Life of Robert Burns. Edited With Notes and Appendices by William Scott Douglas and an Essay on Robert Burns by Sir Walter Raleigh. Illustrated With Thirty-One Plates. Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, Limited, 1914.
Hardcover. First limited edition thus. Numbered 430 of 500 and signed by publisher to limitation page. In two volumes, complete. Leather-bound. Octavo (230 x 150mm), pp. [lxxv], 256; [vii], 270. Finely bound in red half-morocco. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Top edges gilt, other edges unevenly cut. Coloured pastedowns and endpapers. Half-titles present. Illustrated with 31 plates with captioned tissue-guards, including portraits and facsimile MS. Appendix and Index to rear of vol.II. Footnotes throughout. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., Edinburgh. Condition: NEAR FINE. Bindings tight and secure, the hinges perfect. Covers near immaculate, with tiniest hint of marking to cloth. Contents immaculately preserved. Without previous ownership markings. An exquisite set.
