The comical stories of Thrummy Cap and the Ghaist : Margaret and the minister. Soda water.
Burness, John,1771-1826.
Glasgow : Printed for the booksellers,
[1840-1850?]
Attributed to John Burness.
Dated from external evidence.
Illustration on title page.
In verse and prose.
This is a different edition from the items placed at [Ao].8/3.1(22), Hall.224.h.5(18), L.C.2893(7), L.C.2852.A(16), Mas.619(13) and PDL.56/60 the work 'The water drinker' does not appear in this edition.
Variant exists with '16' printed at bottom left of the title page and type set slightly differently.
The final page is blank - missing the two final anecdotes - 'How to read a sign-board' and 'Addition'.
Manuscript inscription on title page reads : by John Burness of Stonehaven.
Manuscript inscription on p. 2 reads : The author, John Burnes, was born at Bogjorgan in Glenbervie parish in 1771 and perished in a snow-storm between Stonehaven and Aberdeen on 12 Janry. 1826. He was  distant relation of the poet Burns, whose great-grandfather James Burnes of Brawlinmuir, was a younger brother of William Burness tenant of  Bogjorgan, the great-grandfather of the author of "Thrummy Cap".
Scotland Glasgow.