Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, in a fine, 19th century, full Morocco binding commissioned by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet and Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, whose Special Collections Department holds the Stirling Maxwell Collection.
Edinburgh: Printed for the author, and sold by William Creech, 1787. First Edinburgh edition (second, expanded edition). Leather. This is the 1787 first Edinburgh edition of the poet's first volume of poems, featuring suitably Scottish provenance. This Edinburgh edition is the second, expanded edition following the shorter, "Kilmarnock" edition of..... More
