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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.
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 ...
In 1787, Burns travelled to Edinburgh with the intention of organizing a second edition. He was introduced to publisher William Creech and printer William Smellie, and agreed with them that the new edition should include many additional poems and commission the famous frontispiece portrait, engraved by John Beugo from a painting by Alexander Nasmyth.
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.
The 1793 two volume Edinburgh Edition was published, much enlarged and for the first time containing the poem Tam o' Shanter. [11] The poem had already appeared in The Edinburgh Herald, 18 March 1791; the Edinburgh Magazine, March 1791 and in the second volume of Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland of 1791 for which it was originally written. [8]
[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. MDCCLXXXVII [ 3 ] The date of publication for the London Edition was in November 1787, [ 4 ] however Strahan and Cadell had previously advertised for sale the 'Second' or 'Edinburgh Edition' using the 500 or ...
The title pages are very similar, however the 'Edinburgh Edition' has the 'By' of 'By Robert Burns' on a line by itself. Title pages of the 'Belfast Edition' and the 'Dublin Variant'. Nearly twice the length of the Kilmarnock Edition of 1786, it was printed in 12mo or Duodecimo rather than the demy octavo format of the 'Edinburgh Edition'.