The Wit of Burns

Title: The Wit of Burns

Author: Macdonald, Ian

Publication: Paisley, Scotland: Gleniffer Press, 1978.

Description: Miniature book containing a selection of poems by Scottish poet Robert Burns. No. 82 of 500 copies. Printed by the Gleniffer Press, the private press of Ian & Helen R. Macdonald, from type set by hand. Title page in red and black. Five full-page black-and-white lithographic reproductions of Victorian portrait engravings. Bound in full cream paper over boards, printed in black, with a silk place-marker and pictorial endpapers printed in brown, depicting Paisley, Scotland in 1767. In original orange dust jacket printed in black. 2.75 x 2.625 inches; [14], 26 [i.e. 29], [7] pages (last leaf blank), [5] leaves of plates. Bookplate of miniature book collector Dorothy Rowe Shaw. Lacking the protective box. A fresh, collectible copy. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Contents: To a mouse -- A prayer -- Address to a Haggis -- On William Smellie -- The bookworms -- On Andrew Turner -- The toad eater -- On a wag in Mauchline -- On wee Johnny -- Written on a pane of glass.