the Burns Encyclopaedia
by Maurice Lindsay
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/good
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co Ltd, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. Gold and black on brown cloth in mint condition; 286 pages including the index, 54 halftones on art paper, Dustjacket has some tears at top edge and some missing to top of spine 10mm.
Format: Hardcover
Year: 1959 - First Edition in original dust jacket
Publisher: Hutchinson
Dimensions: 200 x 33 x 255 (w x l x h)
Pages: 286 Robert Burns (1759 - 96) remains Scotland's greatest poet, songwriter and song-collector. Regarded by Keats and Wordsworth as a morning star of the Romantic Movement in verse, he was also admired by Beethoven and Haydn who set accompaniments for many of his songs. A farmer turned excise officer, he attracted censure for his outspoken advocacy of electoral and parliamentary reform, yet he died a serving soldier in a Volunteer Regiment during the wars with post-revolutionary France. The Burns Encyclopaedia was first published in 1959 by Maurice Lindsay and this is the fourth edition - the first since 1980. All aspects of the poet's biography and literary output are covered, as are his correspondents and contemporaries, many of the latter set against the backdrop of Enligthenment Edinburgh. The present edition has been thoroughly revised and updated in the light of contemporary scholarship. It will be an essential vade mecum for all who are interested in Robert Burns - and in the literary, social and political ambience not just of Scotland but of the UK in the latter decades of the eigtheenth century.
Format: Hardcover
Year: 1959 - First Edition in original dust jacket
Publisher: Hutchinson
Dimensions: 200 x 33 x 255 (w x l x h)
Pages: 286 Robert Burns (1759 - 96) remains Scotland's greatest poet, songwriter and song-collector. Regarded by Keats and Wordsworth as a morning star of the Romantic Movement in verse, he was also admired by Beethoven and Haydn who set accompaniments for many of his songs. A farmer turned excise officer, he attracted censure for his outspoken advocacy of electoral and parliamentary reform, yet he died a serving soldier in a Volunteer Regiment during the wars with post-revolutionary France. The Burns Encyclopaedia was first published in 1959 by Maurice Lindsay and this is the fourth edition - the first since 1980. All aspects of the poet's biography and literary output are covered, as are his correspondents and contemporaries, many of the latter set against the backdrop of Enligthenment Edinburgh. The present edition has been thoroughly revised and updated in the light of contemporary scholarship. It will be an essential vade mecum for all who are interested in Robert Burns - and in the literary, social and political ambience not just of Scotland but of the UK in the latter decades of the eigtheenth century.
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- Bookseller
- The Last Word (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1159
- Title
- the Burns Encyclopaedia
- Author
- Maurice Lindsay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
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