Burns Robert Dent Alan (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First American Edition; dj in mylar (price unclipped); 162 clean, un marked pages/index; . 27 b/w illus. This portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns is set against a landscape of Ayreshire as it was in the second half of the 18th century. It is a refreshing account, being one of disesteem as well as the usual esteem in which the poet is held. Elizabeth Corsellis (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. (1966). First edition. A hint of age-toning to textblock, else fine in a like, price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. With illustrations and decorations by Elizabeth Corsellis; additional reproductions of photos and paintings; printed on coated stock. Indexed. Dent sets himself against the uncritical idolaters besotted of their Scots national bard, but not against Burns himself, in this fascinating study of the poet seen against the landscape of Ayrshire in the second half of the eighteenth century.…