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Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect: PB 7-2007

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect

Maker(s)

Author: Burns, Robert (poet)
Bookseller: Creech, William

Categories

Description

By Robert Burns

Penultimate word of page 263, stanza 8, line 3: "skinking".
Half-title and caption title: Poems, chiefly Scottish.
With a list of subscribers.
Half-bound in leather with marble sides.

Xlviii, [1], 10-368 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 21 cm. (8vo)

Place(s) associated

  • Edinburgh

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2007-06) by Grieve, Marr

Dating

Production date: AD 1787

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 7-2007
Primary reference Number: 156514
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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