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Burns Poetical Works- 1839
The Aldine Edition of the British Poets "The Poems of Burns Three Volumes". London. William Pickering. 1839. Charles Whittingham, London.
Three volume set bound in a light leather. Leather is cracked and scuffed on corners and hinges with markings throughout. Gold tooling on covers and spines. Decorative gold tooling on spine, still vibrant, with red leather labels and the titles tooled in gold "Burns' Poetical Works" with brown leather labels below stating the volume. Volume numbers are scuffed and rubbed off in area. Chip missing on upper portion of spine of volume I. Marbled fore edges and end sheets. Each volume has a distinct tear on the end sheets in the front covers. Clean pages throughout text with some areas of foxing, mainly on the title pages.