‘The hope that someone might present them with a Kilmarnock Burns’: the National Library of Scotland’s First Kilmarnock

Authors

Robert Betteridge, National Library of ScotlandFollow

Abstract

Recounts, from correspondence and minutes in the National Library of Scotland, and from contemporary newspapers, the library's unsuccessful efforts to attract a donated copy of Robert Burns's first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786), and its successful purchase at auction in 1950 of the "Hoe copy," with original wrappers bound in.

Recommended Citation

Betteridge, Robert (2019) "‘The hope that someone might present them with a Kilmarnock Burns’: the National Library of Scotland’s First Kilmarnock," Studies in Scottish Literature: Vol. 45: Iss. 1, 85–93.
Available at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol45/iss1/7