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Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Good.

London: Hutchinson & Co Ltd, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. Gold and black on brown cloth in mint condition; 286 pages including the index, 54 halftones on art paper, Dustjacket has some tears at top edge and some missing to top of spine 10mm. Format: Hardcover Year: 1959 - First Edition in original dust jacket Publisher: Hutchinson Dimensions: 200 x 33 x 255 (w x l x h) Pages: 286 Robert Burns (1759 - 96) remains Scotland's greatest poet, songwriter and song-collector. Regarded by Keats and Wordsworth as a morning star of the Romantic Movement in verse, he was also admired by Beethoven and Haydn who set accompaniments for many of his songs. A farmer turned excise officer, he attracted censure for his outspoken advocacy of electoral and parliamentary reform, yet he died a serving soldier in a Volunteer Regiment during the wars with post-revolutionary France. The Burns Encyclopaedia was first published in 1959 by Maurice Lindsay and this is the… Read More