First issue of the first Edinburgh edition, with the misprints "stinking" and "haggis" in the last stanza on page 263.
Portrait by Beugo after A. Nasmyth, and an original water-colour drawing by Uwins, representing the witches in the church in "Tam O' Shanter."
BURNS, ROBERT.--Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. By Robert Burns. Edinburgh: printed for the author, and sold by William Creech. M,DCC,LXXXVII. _8vo, half green levant morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by Zaehnsdorf._
Second issue of the first Edinburgh edition, with the errors on page 263 corrected to "skinking" and "Haggis."
BURNS, ROBERT.--Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. By Robert Burns. The third edition. London: printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell in the Strand; and W. Creech, Edinburgh. M DCC LXXXVII. _8vo, green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière._
First London edition, copied from the first issue of the first Edinburgh edition, with the misprints in the last stanza of the poem "To a Haggis," on page 267.
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.
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]._