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‘The Hope That Someone Might Present Them With A Kilmarnock Burns’: The National Library Of Scotland’S First Kilmarnock, Robert Betteridge
‘The Hope That Someone Might Present Them With A Kilmarnock Burns’: The National Library Of Scotland’S First Kilmarnock, Robert Betteridge
Studies in Scottish Literature
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.
A Passion For Scholarship & Collecting: The G. Ross Roy Collection Of Robert Burns & Scottish Literature, Thomas Keith
A Passion For Scholarship & Collecting: The G. Ross Roy Collection Of Robert Burns & Scottish Literature, Thomas Keith
Studies in Scottish Literature
Pays tribute to G. Ross Roy as book collector, describing the origins and growth of the Robert Burns collection begun by his grandfather W. Ormiston Roy (1874-1958), of Montreal, Canada, but greatly developed by Professor Roy, before finding a permanent home in the University's Irvin Department of Rare Books.& Special Collections. Notes the range of Scottish authors now included in the collection and describes briefly many of the most distinctive and important Burns items.