NMLP P-038212 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (the Kilmarnock Burns)

Robert Burns · John Wilson, Kilmarnock · 1786

The single fastest disqualifier is a portrait frontispiece: the Kilmarnock has none, whereas the 1787 Edinburgh and later editions carry the John Beugo engraving after Alexander Nasmyth

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038212 for "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (the Kilmarnock Burns)" by Robert Burns (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038212, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).