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Not for maids, ministers, or striplings. The Merry Muses. A choice collection of favorite songs gathered from many sources ... to which is added two of his letters and a poem - hitherto suppressed - and never before printed
by Burns, Robert
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- Condition
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- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
n.p. [London?]: privately printed [by John Camden Hotten?] (not for sale), 1881. Edition limited to 99 copies, 16mo, pp. [iii]-x, [2], 125, [1]; original full paneled crimson morocco, triple gilt borders on covers enclosing a central gilt panel with fleurons in the corners, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, a.e.g.; spine sunned, else near fine, in a green morocco slipcase broken along one edge. Spurious edition of Burns' erotic and bawdy poems. Several similar editions were also printed.
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- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54028
- Title
- Not for maids, ministers, or striplings. The Merry Muses. A choice collection of favorite songs gathered from many sources ... to which is added two of his letters and a poem - hitherto suppressed - and never before printed
- Author
- Burns, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- privately printed [by John Camden Hotten?] (not for sale)
- Place of Publication
- n.p. [London?]
- Date Published
- 1881
- Keywords
- Scottish Literature , Erotica , ,
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- Morocco
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