The poems of Robert Burns / selected and with an introduction by DeLancey Ferguson ; decorated with wood engravings by Joan Hassall

Robert Burns

RA Collection: Book

Record number

15/2054

Author

Imprint

Glasgow: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club by The University Press, 1965

Physical Description

xxii, 191 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. (hbk).

General Note

With more than seventy wood engravings by Joan Hassall.

Copy Note

“Of this edition of the Poems of Robert Burns fifteen hundred copies have been made for the members of The Limited Editions Club. It has been designed by John Dreyfus and printed by Robert Maclehose and Co. Ltd., The University Press, Glasgow. The decorations have been engraved in wood by Joan Hassall who here signs. This copy No. 934.” [colophon].

Binding Note

Quarter-bound in green leather. Green paper cover with cameo portrait of Burns in black. Green leafed decorated slipcase. Lettered in gilt on black spine label: “The Poems of Robert Burns.”

Contributors