michaelmoonsbookshop:A superb example of the art of book binding - Cosway Style Binding.- Burns (Rob
michaelmoonsbookshop:A superb example of the art of book binding - Cosway Style Binding.- Burns (Robert)Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect,Second (first Edinburgh) edition, first issue , engraved portrait frontispiece after J. Beugo by A. Nasmyth, green and purple morocco doublures, Cosway-style sunken panel miniature of Robert Burns within a bejewelled gilt frame on upper doublure, purple morocco for C. J. Sawyer by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., g.e., gilt floral motifs to spine with red morocco inlays, covers elaborately gilt with small floral tools and a central panel of the authors initials to upper cover and thistle motif to the lower cover, 8vo, Edinburgh, printed for the author and sold by William Creech, 1787 -- source link