Autograph manuscript of the ballad Johnie Blunt by Robert Burns, undated, written on the verso of an address leaf that had been mailed to Burns at his office in Dumfries. It was bound with two autograph letters, signed, to Henry Sage from Bernard Quar...
Description:
Accompanying letters not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Burns, Robert,--1759-1796, Quaritch, Bernard,--1819-1899, Riviere & Son, and Sage, Henry M.--1868-1933
Subject (Topic):
Poets, Scottish--18th century and Scottish poetry--18th century
"Stinking" issue of the Edinburgh edition, with misprints "stinking" and "haggis" on p. 263 and "Boxburgh" on p. xxxvii, of more than 300 variations from the "Skinking" edition.--Cf. from Egerer.
Publisher:
Printed for the author and sold by William Creech,
Subject (Name):
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796--Portraits and Tinker, Chauncey Brewster,--1876-1963--Bookplate
