[FORE?EDGE PAINTING]. ???[TAYLOR AND HESSEY]. BURNS, Robert (1759?1796). Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. London: C. Whittingham for John Sharpe, 1824. 8vo (165 x 95 mm). Numerous steel?engravings including additional engraved title?page by Westall (some spotting). Contemporary plum straight?grain morocco with rococo style tooling, an elaborate Greek lyre gilt tooled at the center of both covers, flat raised bands, gilt?tooling and lettering in compartments, gilt turn ins, silk moir? endpapers, all edges gilt, concealing a CONTEMPORARY FORE?EDGE PAINTING of Alloway Auld Kirk in Scotland, BLIND?EMBOSSED BOOKSELLERS? TICKET OF TAYLOR & HESSEY on rear fly leaf. (Recased with reinforced ends, some wear to painting). Provenance: Gladys McKenney Molony presented to the Saint?Mary?of?the?Woods College Library (inscription dated October 1972 and institutional bookplate); sold at the Robert Brown Auction in 2007 at the Saint?Mary?of?the?Woods College Library sale.