Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect /
Burns, Robert,1759-1796
McKie, James,inscriber.StEdNL: ABS.3.78.18
Stewart, J.,former owner.StEdNL: ABS.2.204.053
Kilmarnock : Printed by James McKie,
1867.
On verso of title page: Reprint and fac-simile of the original Kilmarnock edition. (Limited to 600 copies, being the extent of the original issue.)
Imprint on title page: Kilmarnock: Printed by John Wilson. M,DCC,LXXXVI.
See no. 1 in G. Ross Roy. Some notes on the facsimiles of the Kilmarnock Burns, The Bibliotheck, vol. 4, no. 6, 1965.
No. 482 of of the limited edition, numbered and signed by James McKie.
Egerer
Inscription on front flyleaf: These were the first leaves thrown off in printing this edition. They were stolen by McKies' foreman and the signature forged by him. The sheets were given by the foreman to John Adam, Greenock Museum and were afterwards bound by McKelvie, Greenock. John Adam afterwards gave the book to C.D. Lamont on the occasion of James McKie's coming to Greenock to see John (Adam's) "first Burns" 28th. Oct. 1884, J. Stewart.
Scotland Kilmarnock.