This is a first edition of Robert Burns’ 1787 book Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect finely bound by George Bayntun Bindery in England. The binding is full crushed dark blue levant leather with raised bands, gilt tooled panels enclosing thistle design in red and green. The front cover has an inlaid oval hand-painted miniature on ivory of Robert and Mary Burns, surrounded with eighty-nine pearls and two semi-precious stones, all enclosed by the thistle design tooled in gilt.