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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet was born in a small thatched cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire the son of a market gardener who feued 7 acres locally. During a short period he composed a wealth of songs and poems. He died of heart disease in Dumfries at the early age of 37 years.
This edition is on display in the Burns Cottage Museum in Alloway which has also a wealth of various editions of the Poetess works from 1786 to the present day.
This is the second edition of the Poets works, the first being printed in Kilmarnock in 1786. There were two impressions of this Edinburgh edition totaling 3000 copies costing five shillings to subscribers and six shillings to non subscribers. It was sold by his publisher William Creech. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1787-01-01 - 1787-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, | Go to resource |
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