Robert Burns Poetry

ROBERT BURNS

POETRY

Within his lifetime Robert Burns wrote only four collections: the Kilmarnock edition, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, published on July 31, 1786 contained 44 poems; the Edinburgh edition, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, published in 1787, was an enlarged edition with an additional 22 poems; Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, published in February 1793 in two volumes, was the last edition edited by Burns who added another 19 poems; Scots Musical Museum, containing 200 songs and fragments in six volumes was edited by James Johnson between 1787 and 1803; and Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice, was released in eight parts between 1793 and 1818, edited by George Thomson with more than 70 songs.

Textual authority

Titlepage.

Kilmarnock edition M,DCC,LXXXVI July 31, 1786. 612 copies printed.

240 pp. Demy 8vo. Wrappers (in protective Card Envelope) 7/6 net.

Facsimile of the
ORIGINAL KILMARNOCK BURNS
1786

T. WERNER LAURIE, Ltd.,
COBHAM HOUSE,
24 and 26 WATER LANE, LONDON. E.C. 4.
1927

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