Rare first edition of Burns’s Kilmarnock Edition goes on display at Edinburgh Writers’ Museum
Printed in Kilmarnock & published on 21 July 1786 in a run of just over 600 copies, only around 90 copies are known to survive today & each copy is different
https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/14450/rare-first-edition-of-burns-kilmarnock-edition-goes-on-display-at-the-writers-museum
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #RobertBurns #BookHistory #poetry
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