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Description: | These books formed part of the personal library of Robert Burns. They were was published in 1754. The ten volume set is incomplete, as volumes 3 and 9 are missing. The first volume contains an inscription by Robert Burns, the poet's eldest son.
He presented them to John McDairmid, a local journalist and editor of the Dumfries Courier. McDairmid was an admirer of Burns and collected and published much information about his life in Dumfries.
In this he recalls as a boy taking the first two volumes to Mr. Gray, the rector of the grammar school who had asked to borrow them. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Dumfries & Galloway Council - Nithsdale Museums | Temporal: | 1754-01-01 - 1754-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | 'Essais de Montaigne' from the personal | Go to resource |
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