Burns, Robert. Poems. A choice selection from his works, serious and comic. Bryce & Son. Glasgow. 1889. Circa 1889. 272 printed pages. Frontispiece. Binding design & title page by Jessie M King. Dainty Little Library series, 24. Original black endpapers. 60 x 90 mm. Original publisher's burgundy calf. Gilt lettering within art nouveau style decorative borders. The Dainty Little Library saw Bryce re-packaging around thirteen or so classics from the Golden Thoughts and Tartan Series, with art-nouveau re-designed title pages and bindings by Jessie Marion King (1875-1949), a Scottish female children’s book illustrator of high esteem. Volumes 1-5 were Lord Tennyson’s works. 6 and 7 were by Walter Scott. 8 and 9 were Robert Burns title. 10 to 12 were by Wordsworth, Thomas Moore, and Macaulay respectively. All in attractive limp leather bindings of harlequin colours. Garbett, 49. Welsh, 1536. WorldCat locates no copies of the Dainty Little Library edition, worldwide. 47 firsts2024