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The G. Ross Roy Collection Of Robert Burns: An Illustrated Catalog, Elizabeth Sudduth
The G. Ross Roy Collection Of Robert Burns: An Illustrated Catalog, Elizabeth Sudduth
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Established in 1989, the G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns and Burnsiana at the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library is one of the world's foremost collections dedicated to the study of Scotland's greatest poet. Of the approximately six thousand items described in this catalogue, the largest sections are works by Burns and items of Burnsiana. These include not only separate editions of the poet's major works but also editions with distinctive bindings and variants. Among the notable highlights is one of only two known first-edition copies of The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1799) and the only one …