The happy recovery, and other stories for the youngWilliam P. Nimmo, 1870 - 136 pages |
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Page 129 - Of all the handsome reprints of the works of " nature's own " bard, this "Edina" edition of the Poems and Songs of Burns is perhaps the handsomest yet produced. Beautifully printed, and profusely illustrated by some of the most distinguished of the Scotch academicians, it forms a shrine worthy of the genius of the " poet of the land of the mountain and the flood.
Page 129 - It is, as might be expected, Scottish in every respect, — printer, publisher, and illustrators; and as also we think it should ; for with whom could it be so much a labour of love to produce a first-rate edition as with one of Burns's own countrymen ? and who should be better able to illustrate the "brown heath and shaggy wood" of Scotia's scenery than her own sons?