Incline Press - A Garland of Love Songs by Robert Burns.

A Garland of Love Songs, by Robert Burns. Chequebook 8vo, 12p, Incline Press, Oldham, 2013.

One of about 200 copies printed in Modern No.20 and Scotch on Velin Arches. Illustrated with old engravings, marked by time, printed in various colours. Sewn into plum handmade paper wrappers with title label. Fine condition.

Inspired by the Robert Holt collection of early 19th-century ballads at Chetham's Library which has a fair few songs by Robert Burns even though most of the broadsheets and song sheets were published in England. As you would imagine from sheets produced locally for local people the scts Dialect which can make Burns' poems difficult has been 'Englished'. The five songs included in the Garland are Red Red Rose, Corn Riggs, One Fond Kiss, John Anderson My Jo, and Fair Eliza.