Robert Burns / Thomas Campbell / Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Poetical Works of Robert Burns – The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell and Samuel Taylor - 1800-1916

This set brings together two distinguished volumes of English and Scottish poetry that represent important strands of literary history.

The first book is The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, presented in an Oxford University Press edition edited by J. Logie Robertson. Its content offers a comprehensive collection of Burns’s poetry, accompanied by scholarly notes, a glossary, an index of first lines, and a chronological list of the poems. This editorial features reflect an academic approach intended to preserve and explain the language, themes, and cultural context of Burns’s work, making the volume valuable not only for reading pleasure but also for literary study. As an Oxford edition published in the early twentieth century, it represents a period when Burns’s status as a national poet was firmly established and when authoritative, carefully edited collections were produced in relatively limited print runs compared with modern mass editions, which contributes to its desirability and relative scarcity today.

The second book in the set is The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Its content unites the poetry of two influential Romantic-era poets in a single volume, offering readers access to Campbell’s narrative and patriotic verse alongside Coleridge’s major poems and lyrical works. The volume is illustrated with engraved plates, which enhance the literary text and reflect nineteenth-century publishing traditions that combined poetry with visual interpretation. Such illustrated collected editions were intended as substantial literary keepsakes rather than ephemeral reading copies. Over time, intact examples have become increasingly uncommon, which adds to the rarity of the book, particularly when paired as part of a coherent poetic set.

Together, these books form a cohesive and appealing set that spans the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries in poetic expression, while also representing historically significant publishing practices. Their combined literary importance and the decreasing availability of well-preserved copies contribute to the overall rarity and collectable nature of the set.

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