BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 18 “I Lock’d Her In My Fond Embrace; Her Heart Was Beating Rarely: My Blessings On That Happy Place, Among The Rigs O’ Barley!” 14BURNS, Robert. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh, 1787. Octavo, period-style full tan tree calf gilt. $9000 1787 first Edinburgh edition, rare first issue, of the work which established Burns as the national poet of Scotland, preceded only by the extremely scarce Kilmarnock 1786 first edition. When Burns’ Poems first appeared in 1786, “it received the praise of both the critics and the public, [and] established Robert Burns as the national poet of Scotland... His actual success was phenomenal; he rose from the status of a versifying Ayrshire ploughman to that of the unofficial laureate of Scotland… Burns not only changed his mind about emigrating, but resolved to print a second enlarged edition of his poems at Edinburgh” (Rosenbach 46:8). Published only one year after the Kilmarnock edition and with 22 additional poems not in that edition. This copy is from the first issue, with all first issue points. With textual elisions completed in a contemporary hand. Text about-fine, beautifully rebound to style. Mary Shelley’s Important 1839 Edition Of Shelley’s Poetical Works, Handsomely Bound 15SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. London, 1839. Four volumes. 12mo, later full dark green calf gilt. $4000 First edition of Mary Shelley’s important edition of her husband’s poetical works, with engraved frontispiece portrait of the poet by Finden, finely bound.. After Percy Shelley’s death in 1822, Mary Shelley devoted herself to writing his biography and publishing his manuscripts. She first attempted to publish Shelley’s poems in 1824, but his father, Sir Timothy Shelley, prevented further publication of Shelley’s writings for 15 years. “In 1839, the obstacles to an authentic edition having been removed… Mrs. Shelley published what was then supposed to be a definitive edition in four volumes, enriched with biographical notes and some very beautiful lyrics which had remained in manuscript” (DNB). Lowndes, 2374. A beautifully bound set in excellent condition.
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