Research Catalog

Title

Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. [electronic resource] : By Robert Burns.

Author

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.

Publication

Philadelphia : Printed for, and sold by Peter Stewart and George Hyde, the west side of Second-Street, the ninth door above Chesnut-Street, M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]

Details

Additional Authors

Gale (Firm)

Description

viii, [1], 10-304 p.; 8⁰.

Uniform Title

Eighteenth century collections online.

Subject

• Dialect poetry, Scottish > Early works to 1800
• Scotland > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poems.

Note

• Author's preface dated: Edinburgh, April 4, 1787.
• The first American edition. Probably printed by David C. Claypoole and John Dunlap. Cf. Painter, Anna M. "American editions of the Poems of Burns before 1800." The Library, 4th ser., v. 12 (1931-1932): 434-456.
• "Glossary."--p. 279-304.
• Reproduction of original from British Library.

Indexed In (note)

• Evans
• English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

• 642784778
• W27705

Author

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.

Title

Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. [electronic resource] : By Robert Burns.

Imprint

Philadelphia : Printed for, and sold by Peter Stewart and George Hyde, the west side of Second-Street, the ninth door above Chesnut-Street, M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]

Series

Eighteenth century collections online.

Indexed In:

Evans, 20991

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, W27705.

Connect to:

Full text online - available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Place of Publication

United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Added Author

Gale (Firm)