54 BUCHAN, PETER. Gleanings of Scotch, English, and Irish, Scarce Old Ballads. 16mo, contemporary half calf; worn. Peterhead, 1825 FIRST EDITION. From the library of J. Whitefoord Mackenzie, with bookplate. 55 Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, hitherto unpublished. Portrait. 2 vols., 12mo, contemporary half calf, marbled edges; worn, some foxing. 35 FIRST EDITION. Edinburgh, 1828 56 BULKELEY, JOHN, AND JOHN CUMMINS. A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Years 1740-1. Containing a faithful Narrative of the Loss of his Majesty's Ship the Wager. 8vo, contemporary calf. London, 1743 FIRST (?) EDITION. Another edition was published anonymously in the same year. Bulkeley and Cummins narrate the experiences of the group which went south in the Wager's long-boat, ultimately passing through the Straits of Magellan and reaching Brazil. On the fly-leaves are clippings relating to the Australian bush. From the library of Edward Powell, with bookplate. 57 [BULLEN, A. H.] Musa Proterva: Love-Poems of the Restoration Speculum Amantis: Love-Poems from rare songbooks and miscellanies of the seventeenth century. Both edited by A. H. Bullen. Together 2 vols., 8vo, original cloth, vellum-board backs, gilt tops, uncut. [London:] Privately Printed, 1902 Each is one of 400 numbered copies, on handmade paper. 58 BURNE, NICOL. The Disputation concerning the Controversit Headdis of Religion, haldin in the Realme of Scotland. Printed in roman type; typographical ornament on the last and otherwise blank leaf; slight waterstain in the title-leaf and in some other leaves. Imprented at Parise the first day of October, 1581 FIRST EDITION, the only edition listed in S.T.C. From the library of the Royal College of Aberdeen, to whom it was presented in 1630 by Monsignor Gulielmus Rhatus, according to a Latin inscription of that date on the title-page, which also bears another early inscription of the College and several shelf-marks. 59 BURNET, GILBERT. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time. 2 engraved portraits. 6 vols., 8vo, old half calf, sprinkled edges; worn, some foxmarks and offsets. Oxford, 1823 From the library of Coningsby Disraeli, with bookplate. "WHAT AFFECTS MY BROTHER'S FAME 60 BURNS, GILBERT, younger brother of Robert Burns. AN IMPORTANT AND REVEALING LETTER, WRITTEN UPON THE RECEIPT OF 66 I am surprised that you did not see the propriety of suppressing the blunt mention my Brother made of the late Lord Loudon shooting himself. What effect do you think it will have on the feelings of his Daughter, the Countess of Loudon & Moira, if she should happen to cast her eyes on that page? The Epigrams on Lord G. (which have no merit but their bitterness) are likely to fix the resentment of a powerful person against the Poet's Memory & family I think almost the whole of the poetry and nearly the half of the prose in the Volume might have been suppressed with advantage affects my Brother's fame as an Author is to me trifling compared to raising the resentment of people of power and Influence, or even preventing their good offices to his Children and family continues at some length, denying the authenticity of the poems printed at pp. 434-5, 440, 446, and 450 of the "Reliques". What The letter LETTERS BY THE BROTHER OF ROBERT BURNS ARE OF GREAT RARITY. THE KILMARNOCK BURNS 61 BURNS, ROBERT. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. FIRST EDITION. A GOOD COPY OF THIS EXCESSIVELY RARE BOOK, measuring 7 by 418 inches and UNUSUALLY FREE FROM REPAIRS AND RESTORATIONS. [SEE ILLUSTRATION] 62 Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Stipple portrait by Beugo after Nasmyth. 8vo, original boards, uncut; skilfully rebacked, boards with some stains, slight stains in blank margins of portrait. In a blue crushed levant morocco solander case. London: A. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1787 FIRST LONDON EDITION. SCARCE IN THIS UNCUT STATE. POEM S, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT, BY ROBERT BURN S. THE Simple Bard, unbroke by rules of Art, He pours the wild effufions of the heart i And if infpir'd, 'tis Nature's pow'rs inspire; Her's all the melting thrill, and her's the kindling fire. ANONYMOUS. KILMARNOCK: PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON. M,DCC,LXXXVI. [NUMBER 61] 63 Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Stipple portrait by Beugo after Nasmyth. 8vo, green crushed levant morocco, gilt tooled back, sides with gilt fillets, gilt dentelle borders inside, gilt top, uncut, by RIVIERE. Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, and sold by William Creech, 1787 FIRST EDINBURGH EDITION. With the error "stinking" on p. 263. The preliminary leaves are in their earliest state, with the error "Boxburgh" in the list of subscribers. This edition contains twenty-seven new poems not included in the Kilmarnock edition. A MAGNIFICENT COPY, measuring 8% by 5% inches, WITH THE LOWER AND FORE EDGES ENTIRELY UNCUT. WITH OVER NINETY WORDS OF IN BURNS' AUTOGRAPH 64 BURNS, ROBERT. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. 2 vols., 12mo, contemporary half calf and boards, sprinkled edges; considerably worn, front hinge partly cracked. In a blue crushed levant morocco solander case. Edinburgh: T. Cadell, London, and William Creech, 1793 SECOND EDINBURGH EDITION, containing twenty new poems. COPY REVISED BY THE POET HIMSELF, WITH OVER NINETY WORDS OF TEXTUAL EMENDATION AND ADDITION IN HIS HAND. BURNS' CORRECTIONS OCCUR ON THIRTY DIFFERENT PAGES (Vol. I, pp. 4, 66, 86, 87, 91, 92, 116, 162, and 163; Vol. II, pp. [1], 22, 31, 48, 50, 57, 65, 71, 80, 81, 95, 106, 111, 144, 148, 163, 164, 181, 224, 227, and 252). TWENTY-EIGHT OF THESE CHANGES SUPPLY THE FULL NAMES OF PERSONS AND PLACES identified in the text by the first and last letters only. Several of these are of great interest: e.g. BURNS' NOTE ON P. 164 (Vol. II) IDENTIFIES THE UNPOPULAR LADY UPON WHOSE DEATH HIS SATIRIC ODE WAS COMPOSED; later he appears to have thought better of this exposure, and to have scored it through. To the title of "On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies", Burns has appended the words "On Myself" (Vol. II, p. 57). For two lines on p. 4, Vol. I (lines 43-4 of "The Twa Dogs", Burns has substituted a euphemistic reading quite different from that adopted in the 1794 Edition, and on p. 144 of Vol. II, BURNS HAS IDENTIFIED THE AUTHOR OF THE CHORUS OF THE SONG, "ÁGAIN REJOICING NATURE SEES", AS HIS CONVIVIAL FRIEND WILLIAM DUNBAR, Writer to the Signet, of Edinburgh. THIS ATTRIBUTION, BY BURNS HIMSELF, APPARENTLY REMAINS UNRECORDED TO THE PRESENT DAY. On the fly-leaves are the signature of A. Brown and a later owner, J. B. Stewart. [SEE ILLUSTRATION] 65 Poems ascribed to Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Bard, not contained in any Edition of his Works hitherto published. 8vo, original boards, uncut; somewhat worn. Glasgow: Thomas Stewart, 1801 FIRST EDITION. Second Issue, with seven additional poems and a letter, printed on pp. 81-94. |