Surviving first edition of Kilmarnock Edition expected to reach up to £60,000 A rare first edition of Robert Burns maiden poetry collection is to go under the hammer later this month in what has ...

The Kilmarnock edition includes a number of the bard’s most popular poems, much of which were written at Mossgiel farm, Mauchline, East Ayrshire, where he lived and worked alongside his brother ...

After the death of Burns’s father William Burnes on 13 February 1784, this was one of a number of epitaphs which was selected by the poet for inclusion in the Kilmarnock edition. Worn out by ...

Robert Burns was eventually dissuaded from emigrating by the success of his Kilmarnock Edition (1786) and the promise of a further edition to be published in Edinburgh.