£400
4 vols., 8vo, viii, ix-xxiii, [i], 389, [1] + frontispiece; [iv], xxiii, [i], 467, [1]; xvi, 431, [1]; xxiv, 415, [1]. Untrimmed in original marbled paper boards backed in cream paper, printed paper labels to spines. Some spotting, vol. 4 with a small dampmark to upper margin. Bindings rubbed and a somewhat worn, a few joints cracked but strong, spines darkened, a small piece of vol. 4 spine excised.
An unusual survival in the original boards of the second edition of the first collected works of Burns, following the 1800 Liverpool edition. The textual changes between the editions were minor, and the frontispiece is in fact the same plate (with its own imprint dated 1800) reused across the three. 'The content is in the same order, but the differences reflect this new edition, most notably in the new advertisement, the lack of a list of subscribers, and the added appendix' (Lamont).
