The Complete Writings.

“Large-Paper Edition”, limited to 1000 copies, 750 for the USA and 250 for Great Britain, of which this is number 53 of the American issue. "Accepted since his death as Scotland's national bard, Burns was the first poet of the English-speaking world to be honoured by a network of clubs dedicated to celebrating his life and works… Burns was read enthusiastically … in America, where he mattered to poets as different as Whitman and Whittier" (ODNB).

10 volumes, 8vo. Original navy blue half morocco bound at the Riverside Press, spines lettered in gilt and with gilt thistle motifs in compartments, blue cloth sides, blue endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut. With colour plate to the front of each volume. Spines gently sunned, a very good set.