The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings. To which are prefixed, some observations on the character and condition of the Scottish peasantry. In four volumes ... The fifth edition

London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand; and W. Creech, at Edinburgh [by J. M'Creery, Black-Horse-Court, Fleet-Street, London], 1806. 4 volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, 395, [1]; xxiv, 470; xii, 422; xxiv, 414, [2]; engraved frontispiece portrait, woodcut vignette title pages; original marbled boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper labels on spines; front joints cracked on each volume, label chipped on volume I with loss to a couple of letters, spines with chips out all around; text blocks sound and clean with just occasional moderate foxing. (Inventory #: 66533)