MARC Record from University of Toronto

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100 $aBurns, Robert,$d1759-1796
245 14 $aThe poetical works and letters of Robert Burns :$bwith copious marginal explanations of the Scotch words and life : engravings on steel.
246 14 $aBurns' poems and letters
246 18 $aBurns' :$billustrated
260 $aLondon ;$aEdinburgh :$bGall & Inglis,$c[1881].
300 $axxxii, [1], 4-642 p., [4] leaves of plates :$b4 plates (transfer lithographs) ;$c19 cm.
440 4 $aLandscape series of poets
500 $aT.p. and text printed within alternating red-brown, blue-green and grey illustrated borders.
500 $aDate taken from British Library Public Catalogue.
500 $aIncludes "The life of Robert Burns.": p. [iii]-xvi.
500 $a"Some alterations have been made in objectionable phrases in the Poetry, they are put in small capitals"--Contents.
500 $aIncludes "Index of first lines.": p. xxix-xxxii.
500 $aPlates are transfer lithographs of originally steel-engraved illustrations. All are with captions.
500 $aA different issue of another [1881] edition of this title published by Gall & Inglis. With the same setting of type but with different borders, two additional lines at the end of p. 217, an additional letter and punctuation at the end of p. 259, and a word slipped out of line on the last line of p. 306. See McLean D 0152.
590 $aMASS copy: Bound in green fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in red, gold and blind in the same design as McLean D 0696. Upper cover with ogee-shaped recessed panel filled with varnished rounded papier mâché panel covered with chromolithographed floral illustration. Upper cover and spine with red cloth onlays blocked in gold with title. Upper cover blocked in red and gold with four small illustrated roundels. Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g. Spine blocked in gold with series title: "Landscape series of poets". Upper cover blocked in red with series title: "The landscape series of poets". Spine with imprint: "Gall & Inglis". With dark brown painted endpapers.$5CaOTMC
650 0 $aGift books$vSpecimens.
651 0 $aScotland$vPoetry.
655 7 $aTransfer lithographs$xSpecimens$zGreat Britain$y1881.$2gmgpc
655 7 $aChromolithographs$xSpecimens$zGreat Britain$y1881.$2gmgpc
655 7 $aGold blocked bindings$xSpecimens$zGreat Britain$y1881.$2rbbin
655 7 $aOnlays$xSpecimens$zGreat Britain$y1881.$2rbbin
655 7 $aPictorial cloth bindings$xSpecimens$zGreat Britain$y1881.$2rbbin
949 $aMcLean D 0153$wASIS$c1$i5147658-1001$lRAREBOOKS$mMASSEY$rN$sY$tBOOK$u25/5/2004