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The Kilmarnock Burns and Book History
The Bottle Imp (2017)
  • Patrick Scott, University of South Carolina - Columbia
Abstract
Based on the recent census of the surviving copies of Robert Burns's first book, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Kilmarnock, 1786) (Young and Scott, 2017), discusses and illustrates the different forms in which it has been preserved, contrasting the original wrappers with later fine bindings, but also illustrating several contemporary bindings with which the original owners replaced the temporary wrappers, suggesting that these give a better indication of the social range of Burns's first readers.

Keywords
  • Scottish literature,
  • Scottish poetry,
  • book history,
  • binding styles,
  • Robert Burns,
  • John Wilson
Publication Date
November 22, 2017
Citation Information
Patrick Scott. "The Kilmarnock Burns and Book History" The Bottle Imp Iss. 22 (2017)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/patrick_scott/342/