BURNS, Robert.—Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. By Robert Burns. Philadelphia: printed for, and sold by Peter Stewart and George Hyde M,DCC,LXXXVIII. 12mo, olive levant morocco, richly tooled on back and sides, gilt edges, by Lortic.
First American edition, published in April. The text of this edition gives unmistakable evidence that it was printed from the first issue of the first Edinburgh edition, with the two errors in the lines, "To a Haggis."
BURNS, Robert.—Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. By Robert Burns. To which are added, Scots Poems, selected from the works of Robert Ferguson. New York: printed by J. and A. M'Lean, Franklin's Head, No. 41, Hanover-Square. M,DCC,LXXXVIII. Post 8vo, green levant morocco, gilt back, wide side borders of interlacing fillets and foliage, doubled with green morocco, green silk guard, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
Second American edition, published in June. Printed from the first issue of the first Edinburgh edition, with the two errors in the poem "To a Haggis," last stanza, page 187.
Portrait by Scot.
BURNS, Robert.—Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. By Robert Burns. Belfast: printed and sold by William Magee, . . . M,DCC,XC. 12mo, green morocco, gilt and mosaic back, side panels in mosaic of orange, red, ivory, and maroon morocco, the intervals studded with dots, corner ornaments in gilt and red mosaic, gilt edges, by "E. S. Aurifex" [Sir Edward Sullivan].
The misprints in the last stanza of the poem, "To a Haggis," are repeated, page 187.
BURNS, Robert.—Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. By Robert Burns. . . . The second edition considerably enlarged. Edinburgh: printed for T. Cadell, London, and William Creech, Edinburgh. M.DCC.XCIII. 8vo, two volumes, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
Portrait by Beugo after Nasmyth.
BURNS, Robert.—Poems. 1793. 8vo, two volumes in one, original half calf, uncut edges, in a maroon morocco case.