NMLP P-038215 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (the Kilmarnock Burns)
Robert Burns · John Wilson, Kilmarnock · 1786
No book-club editions exist for an 18th-century work. The documented reprint and later-issue tells are the unauthorised Belfast, Dublin and London editions that followed the 1787 Edinburgh printing, and the second Edinburgh edition of 1793. Made-up Kilmarnock copies with facsimile leaves are a recorded hazard — one described copy contained 84 original leaves and 36 supplied in facsimile — so any Kilmarnock must be leaf-collated. For the Edinburgh edition, presence of the Beugo portrait alone proves nothing about state; only the p. 263 skinking/stinking reading and the subscribers'-list misprint do.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038215 for "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (the Kilmarnock Burns)" by Robert Burns (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038215, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).