[Robert Burns' cottage in Alloway, Scotland.]

Accession No: 07_04_000020A

 

Call No: PR1173.J6 1827x

 

Book Title: Select British poets, v.2

 

Painting Location: Fore-edge/fanned to the right

 

Painting Title: [Robert Burns' cottage in Alloway, Scotland.]

 

Subject: Country life

 

Catalog Card Transcription:

Select British Poets. Vol. I, The Poetical Works of John Milton; Vol. II. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; Vol. III, The Poetical Remains of Henry Kirke White. London, Jones & Co., 1825.

 

Frontispiece; slightly foxed. Together 3 vols., 12mo, uniformly bound in full contemporary dark red morocco, gilt backs and borders on sides, gilt edges.

 

With a painting concealed under the gilt of the fore edges of each volume, depicting:

Vol. I: Stoke Poges, with Thomas Gray's tomb in Stoke Park.

Vol. II. The birthplace of Robert Burns, depicting a farm scene.

Vol. III: Winborne, Dorset, the birthplace of Matthew Prior, showing houses and cattle.

 

I. Milton, John, The Poetical works of. II. Pope, Alexander, the Poetical Works of. III. White, Henry Kirke, The Poetical Remains of.

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