Songs and Ballads of Robert Burns.

BURNS, Roberts.

Item Number: 96078

London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis Limited, c. 1910.

First edition of this illustrated collection of the songs and ballads of Robert Burns. Large octavo, original half cloth with gilt titles to the spine, with 10 color tipped-in illustrations by Monro S. Orr including frontispiece. In very good condition.

Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora around the world.