Charles Dickens--Robert Burns | Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Edinburgh, 1797, Charles Dickens' copy

Charles Dickens--Robert Burns

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Edinburgh: printed for T. Cadell, W. Davies, and William Creech, 1797

CHARLES DICKENS' COPY, 1 volume only (of two), 8vo (179 x 114mm.), engraved frontispiece portrait, pages 2 and 3 with marginal annotations in a nineteenth century hand, contemporary polished calf gilt, yellow edges, marbled endpapers, closed tear at inner margin of frontispiece, very occasional spotting

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Charles Dickens: bookplate, and sale label "From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870"; John Stanley, bookplate; William F. Gable (1856-1921): bookplate, dated 1910; sold at Doyle New York, 24 November 2014, lot 524; sold at Heritage Auctions as part of 'Group of Two Volumes from the Library of Charles Dickens' from the collection of Jerome P. O'Connor, 13 September 2018, lot 45257