The Works of Robert Burns; with a complete life of the poet [by James Currie], and an essay on his genius and character, by Professor Wilson, etc. [With plates, including portraits
An 1855 Blackie & Son edition of Robert Burns's collected works, carrying James Currie's life of the poet and John Wilson's essay on his genius, issued for Victorian household readers. The plates are steel-engraved Scottish views printed sideways on the page: river gorges, bridges, ruined walls and cottages set behind heavy foreground trees, with finely graded grey skies that give designers ready-made tonal backgrounds, leafy framing arches and silhouetted tree profiles.
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