THE POETRY OF ROBERT BURNS. Edited by W.E. Henley and T.F. Henderson With Numerous Illustrations

4 volumes. First Printing of this Edition, a complete and pleasing printing. Illustrated with frontispieces to each volume in colour, and numerous full-page illustrations throughout, with many in colour. The songs of Burns set to music and printed complete in Vol. IV. Thick large 8vo, handsomely bound in the publisher's original green cloth, the spines illustrated and lettered in gilt, the upper covers with gilt pictorial devices showing Robert Burns within a panel at the center, and lettered in gilt at the top and bottom of the upper covers, the covers additionally stamped with decorative devices in blind, top edges gilt. xxviii, [2], 464; xxii, [2], 475; xxii, [2], 519; xv, [3], 348, 96 [Songs and Music] pp. A very fine, and handsome copy, as pristine but for some old unobtrusive small mellowed areas to the rear covers, beautifully preserved with no real evidence of wear or use.

Edizione: a very pleasing collection in crisp and pristine condition. included in these volumes are burns' poems, epistles, ballads, political ballads and satires, songs and music. burns wrote some 200 songs, which include many of his best-known lyrics such as "auld lang syne". the bindings on this particular edition are especially attractive.<br> burns, a ploughman poet, to this day ranks high among the poets of great britain. whether employing his flawless 18th century english or his native scots dialect, his writings speak to us eloquently . “his finest work springs from his own soil, from his compassionate and generous nature, and from the scots’ poetic tradition.he employed the scottish vernacular with great skill and range.he was in direct contact with its source and the themes of scots rural life provided an inexhaustible field for poetic expression.”-michael stapleton. <br> burns’ most famous collection was a tremendous success and was reprinted many times during his lifetime. just prior to its first publication in 1786 he was preparing to leave scotland for jamaica to escape several scandalous affairs involving a number of young ladies. with the money from the publishing of his poems, he was able to remain in scotland and build a new (though perhaps none the more chaste) life in edinburgh.