Cloth binding for ‘The National Burns’

John Leighton

1879–80

Cloth binding

Signed

Another of Leighton’s emblematic bindings, with Burns’s status as one of the higher beings in the realm of poetry being slightly strangely suggested by the stars at the corners of the board.

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