The poems, letters and land of Robert Burns: . illustrated by W. H. Bartlett, T. Allom, and other artists. With a new memoir of the poet, and notices, critical and biographical, of his works, by Allan Cunningham.
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Category
Books
Date
1838 - 1840
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3139816
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v, plates . ill.., ports. . fol.. Not indigenous. Meade collection? Spines lettered in gilt at foot with shelf marks "R 170" and "R 171". Provenance: No marks of ownership. Binding: Nineteenth century half calf, blind tooled; marbled paper over boards; spines gilt tooled; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; bookseller's ticket front pastedown: "Develin & Boyle, Booksellers, Edinburgh.".
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade in 1999, and formerly from the library of Sidney Meade (1839-1917), Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.
Makers and roles
Robert Burns (1759-1796) Thomas Allom (Lambeth 1804 - Barnes 1872) William Henry Bartlett the elder (Kentish Town 1809 - at sea 1854) Allan Cunningham