[Rarebooks] fa: ROBERT BURNS' WORKS - PHILADELPHIA: FAIRBAIRN, 1804 ( 3 vols./Uncommon Early American Printing)

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with some other 19th-century British literature,  
auctions ending Sunday, Feb. 7. Details and images can be found at the  
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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A., CA USA


The Works of Robert Burns; With an Account of his Life, and a  
Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on  
the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry. Philadelphia:  
Published by William Fairbairn, 1804. Three volumes, 12mo (17.5 x 10.5  
cm), in full period tree calf; 363, 347, 342 pp.; portrait frontispiece.

The publisher William Fairbairn was a Scot, born in Roxburghshire in  
1762, and had known Burns before emigrating to America in 1796. An  
uncommon early printing of Burns's works from an uncommon early  
American imprint. We find no other examples available in the  
bookdealer databases and a search of OCLC turns up none but microform  
copies. Contents: v. 1. Life of Burns. General correspondence,  
including pieces of miscellaneous poetry; v. 2. Letters, &c.  
Correspondence with Mr. George Thomson; v. 3. Poems. Appendix. Glossary.