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Description:Established in 1989, the G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns and Burnsiana at the University of South Carolinas Thomas Cooper Library is one of the worlds foremost collections dedicated to the study of Scotlands greatest poet. G. Ross Roy, an internationally renowned Burns scholar, inherited the origins of this collection from his grandfather in 1958. Since that time, the dynamic collection has increased fivefoldand continues to expand through new acquisitions. This illustrated catalogue of the collections expansive holdings is being published in 2009 on the occasion of Burnss 250th birthday as a guide to the current collection for researchers and collectors alikeOf the approximately six thousand items described in the catalogue, the largest sections are works by Burns and items of Burnsiana. These include not only separate editions of the poets major works but also editions with distinctive bindings and variants. Among the notable highlights is one of only two known first-edition copies of The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1799) and the only one with a complete title page. The collection also includes sixteen of the twenty-one known variants of the 1827 reprint edition of that work. Also detailed are landmark collections of Burns, including the exceptionally rare Kilmarnock edition (1786), the 1787 Edinburgh edition with more than thirty annotations in Burnss hand, the 1787 London edition, and James Curries 1800 edition. The collection includes as well Burnss annotated copy of John Moores novel Zeluco and a copy of The World with more than sixty ascriptions and comments in Burnss hand. The catalogued Burnsiana features almost every book-length study of the poet as well asnumerous pamphlets and books with significanWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns: An Illustrated Catalogue. To get started finding The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns: An Illustrated Catalogue, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Established in 1989, the G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns and Burnsiana at the University of South Carolinas Thomas Cooper Library is one of the worlds foremost collections dedicated to the study of Scotlands greatest poet. G. Ross Roy, an internationally renowned Burns scholar, inherited the origins of this collection from his grandfather in 1958. Since that time, the dynamic collection has increased fivefoldand continues to expand through new acquisitions. This illustrated catalogue of the collections expansive holdings is being published in 2009 on the occasion of Burnss 250th birthday as a guide to the current collection for researchers and collectors alikeOf the approximately six thousand items described in the catalogue, the largest sections are works by Burns and items of Burnsiana. These include not only separate editions of the poets major works but also editions with distinctive bindings and variants. Among the notable highlights is one of only two known first-edition copies of The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1799) and the only one with a complete title page. The collection also includes sixteen of the twenty-one known variants of the 1827 reprint edition of that work. Also detailed are landmark collections of Burns, including the exceptionally rare Kilmarnock edition (1786), the 1787 Edinburgh edition with more than thirty annotations in Burnss hand, the 1787 London edition, and James Curries 1800 edition. The collection includes as well Burnss annotated copy of John Moores novel Zeluco and a copy of The World with more than sixty ascriptions and comments in Burnss hand. The catalogued Burnsiana features almost every book-length study of the poet as well asnumerous pamphlets and books with significanWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns: An Illustrated Catalogue. To get started finding The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns: An Illustrated Catalogue, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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