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BURNS (ROBERT) Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, second (first Edinburgh) edition, with "skinking" at p.263, and "Boxburgh" rather than "Roxburgh" in the list of subscribers AUTOGRAPH ADDRESS PANEL IN THE HAND OF ROBERT BURNS, TO GEORGE THOMSON tipped onto stub between title and dedication leaf, Edinburgh, for the Author, by W. Creech, 1787 image 1
BURNS (ROBERT) Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, second (first Edinburgh) edition, with "skinking" at p.263, and "Boxburgh" rather than "Roxburgh" in the list of subscribers AUTOGRAPH ADDRESS PANEL IN THE HAND OF ROBERT BURNS, TO GEORGE THOMSON tipped onto stub between title and dedication leaf, Edinburgh, for the Author, by W. Creech, 1787 image 2
Lot 75

BURNS (ROBERT)
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, second (first Edinburgh) edition, AUTOGRAPH ADDRESS PANEL IN THE HAND OF ROBERT BURNS, TO GEORGE THOMSON tipped in, 1787

23 March 2022, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BURNS (ROBERT)

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, second (first Edinburgh) edition, with "skinking" at p.263, and "Boxburgh" rather than "Roxburgh" in the list of subscribers AUTOGRAPH ADDRESS PANEL IN THE HAND OF ROBERT BURNS, TO GEORGE THOMSON tipped onto stub between title and dedication leaf, half-title, engraved portrait by I. Beugo after A. Nasmyth, calf gilt by Riviere (with stamp on front free endpaper), g.e., rebacked retaining original spine elaborately tooled in 6 compartments (4 with thistle motif; 2 with morocco lettering labels), slightly rubbed at extremities [Egers 2; Rothschild 556], 8vo, Edinburgh, for the Author, by W. Creech, 1787

Footnotes

Includes a manuscript address leaf written by Burns to "Mr. George Thomson, Trustees Office, Edin." and "Robin Adair" vertically on fold. It is annotated ("ans.d"), and with numeral "No. 20" (struck through in ink) in a different hand. On the flaps are stamped "Au[gust] 14" in red ink, and "Dumfries" in black. George Thomson (1757–1851) was a friend of Burns, Clerk to the Board of Trustees for Encouragement of Art and Manufacture in Scotland, and edited A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, the first volume (1793) of which included twenty-five poems by Burns himself.

Burns and Thompson were regular correspondents. It is probable that our envelope would have enclosed a version of one the poems that Burns set to the tune of "Robin Adair" and sent to Thompson for comment. In August 1793 he sent two - "Had I a Cave", and " Phyllis the Fair", both of which met with the recipient's approval. For another address panel addressed by Burns to Thompson see the Burns Scotland website.

Provenance: William F. Gable (1856-1921, American collector), bookplate.

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