The Works of Robert Burns; With an Account of His Life James Currie
1825. New edition. 243 pages. Half bound brown leather with red cloth covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Some pages folded. Previous owner's name to front pastedown and heavy pencil inscriptions to rear. Boards have heavy wear with bumped and abraded corners. Spine ends similarly worn and spine itself strongly scuffed. Gilt dulled. Board surfaces heavily stained, scratched and rubbed. Much of spine detaching or missing.