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[2] [3] The book cost three shillings, in a temporary paper binding that most purchasers soon had replaced. There is no formal dedication at the start of the book, but Burns includes a dedication poem to Gavin Hamilton at pp. 185-191, and "The Cotter's Saturday Night" is "inscribed to R.A. Esq.," i.e. Robert Aitken.
Burns and his family became firm friends in Dumfries with Thomas White and he presented Thomas with a copy of his 1793 Edinburgh Edition, writing in the volume "Mr. White will accept of this book as a mark of the most sincere Friendship, from a man who has ever had too much respect for his friends, & too much contempt for his enemies, to ...
Hunters' Illustrated History of the Family, Friends and Contemporaries of Robert Burns. Messrs. Hunter McQueen and Hunter. ISBN 978-0-9559732-0-8; Scott, Patrick & Lamont, Craig (2016). 'Skinking' and 'Stinking': the Printing and Proofing of Robert Burns's Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh, 1787) Book Collector Vol. 65 Iss. 4.
A rare first edition of a book of Robert Burns poems, saved from destruction in a late 19th century barber shop, has gone on show for the first time since before lockdown.
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (London Edition) is commonly known as the Third or London Edition and sometimes the Stinking Edition. [1] [2] It is a collection of poetry and songs by Robert Burns, printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell in the Strand; and W. Creech, Edinburgh.
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, [a] was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.
Frances was the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Wallace of Cragie of that Ilk, 26th Chief of Clan Wallace and his wife Dame Eleanore Agnew. [2] She married John Dunlop of Dunlop in 1748, a man twenty-three years her senior [2] and upon his death in 1785 she was left ill and in a depressed state which was only alleviated by a gift of Robert Burns's poem A Cotter's Saturday Night from Miss Betty ...
The origin of this poem is alluded to by Burns in one of his letters to Frances Dunlop: "I had an old grand-uncle with whom my mother lived in her girlish years: the good old man was long blind ere he died, during which time his highest enjoyment was to sit and cry, while my mother would sing the simple old song of 'The Life and Age of Man'". [1] "