Hardcover
1968 · Oxford
by Burns, Robert; James Kinsley (Editor)
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 1625pp (continuously paginated). Octavo [22.5cm]. Bound in blue cloth, with title stamped in gilt on each spine. Blind stamped publisher's device on each front board. Mild toning to the spine of each dust jacket. All of Burn's surviving poems and songs. Based on a critical recension of nearly 800 manuscripts and early printings and includes songs collected or amended by Burns. Accompanied by a textual introduction, a critical apparatus and literary and textual commentary. The editor also dedicates sources and analogues and relates the poems to Scottish history, manners and literary tradition. (Inventory #: 67802)