1786-1800
Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786 John Wilson, Kilmarnock)
- 600 copies
[Sold by subscription at the price of 3/-. Few copies are known to exist]
One sold at Sotheby's in 1925 for £1750
(1787 Wm Creech for author,
Edinburgh)
(1787 London. 3rd Ed. 1st London Edition)
(1794 for T Cadell,
Edinburgh & William Creech, London)
- 2 vols
(1798 Cadell, Davies & Creech,
Edinburgh. New Ed)
- 2 vols in 1
(In)
The Scots Musical Museum : Edited by James Johnson (1787-1803)
- 6 vols. et al
(In)
A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs : Edited by G Thomson (1793-9)
- 4 vols
The Poetical Miscellany (1800 Stewart & Meikle, Glasgow)
The Works of Robert Burns (1800 J McCreery, Liverpool)
- 4 vols
1801-1810
Poems by Robert Burns (1801 Oliver,
Edinburgh)
- 2 vols
Poems Ascribed to Robert Burns (1801 Chapman & Lang for Thos Stewart Glasgow)
Burns' Poems (1802 Stewart/Macgoun, Glasgow)
The Works .. with an Account of Life (1802 London. 3rd Ed)
- 4 vols
Letters Addressed to Clarinda (1802 Stewart & Macgoun, Glasgow)
(1809 John B Austin, Phila)
Reliques of Robert Burns (1808 Cadell & Davies)
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1808 J Mitchell, Newcastle)
- Chapbook
The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (1808 Catnach & W Davison, Alnwick)
- 2 vols. Bewick
Select Scottish Songs, Ancient & Modern (1810 Cadell & Davies)
- 2 vols
1811-1840
The Prose Works (1816 J Marshall, Newcastle)
The Prose Works (1819 Mackenzie & Dent, Newcastle)
The Works (Ed by James Currie)
(1819 William Allason)
- 4 vols
The Works : To which is prefixed a Life by James Currie (1824 Davison for Tegg)
An Address to the Deil (1830 Wm Kidd, London)
- Thomas Landseer
The Works (1834 James Cochrane, London)
- 8 vols
The Poetical Works (1839 Wm Pickering, Aldine Poets. 2nd Ed)
- 3 vols
The Poems, Letters and Land of Robert Burns (1840 Virtue)
- 2 vols
1841-1870
The Correspondence between Burns and Clarinda (1843 Wm Tait,
Edinburgh)
The Poetical Works (1856 James Nichol,
Edinburgh)
- 2 vols
The Complete Works (1857 Milner & Sowerby, Halifax)
The Soldiers' return (1857 Constable)
- John Faed
Poems and Songs (1858 Bell & Daldy)
- Birket Foster, Harrison Weir, J C Horsley, G Thomas
(1860 W Kent & Co)
The Works, with a Complete Life of the Poet & an Essay on His Genius & Character by
Professor Wilson (1859 Blackie)
- 2 vols
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1867 James Mckie, Kilmarnock)
- 600. Facsimile of 1st Edition
Poems and Songs (1868 Nimmo)
- John Lawson
Kilmarnock Complete Edition of Burns' Poems & Songs
(1868-70 James M'Kie, Kilmarnock)
- 4 vols. 600 sets
1871-1900
Some Account of the Glenriddell MSS of Burns' Poems
(1874 Gilbert W Walmsley, Liverpool for PP distribution)
The Works of Robert Burns (1877-9 Wm Paterson,
Edinburgh)
- 6 vols
The Merry Muses .. Never Before Printed, Not for Maids, Ministers or Striplings
(1890 and not 1827 PP not for sale by Hotten)
- 90
The Poetry : Centenary Edition (edited by W Henley & T Henderson)
(1896 James Thin,
Edinburgh)
- 4 vols. 600
The Poetry (1896 Jack, London)
- 4 vols
The Life & Works of Robert Burns (1896 W & R Chambers,
Edinburgh)
- 4 vols
Robert Burns & Mrs Dunlop : Correspondence now first published in full
(1898 Hodder & Stoughton)
1901- 1925
The Poetry (1901 Jack,
Edinburgh)
- 4 vols. edited by W E Henley & T F Henderson
Tam O'Shanter (1902 Essex House Press)
- 150 on Vellum
The Songs : Now first printed with the Melodies (1903 Henry Frowde, London)
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1905 Chatto & Windus)
- A S Boyd
Notes on Scottish Song, written in an interleaved Copy of the Scots Musical
Museum (1908 Henry Frowde)
- 255. Edited by James C Dick
Poems and Letters in the Handwriting of Robert Burns reproduced in facsimile
(1908 Burns Club, St Louis)
- 300
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1908 James Hewitson, Hampstead)
- 200. Frontis by Arthur Rackham
Songs from Robert Burns (1925
Golden Cockerel Press)
- 450. Mabel M Annesley
AFTER 1926
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 1927 J Werner Laurie, London) - facsimile
The Complete Writings (1927 Waverley Book Co) - 10 vols. 250
The Merry Muses (1927 PP, not for sale)
The Letters .. Ed from original MS by J De Lancey Ferguson (1931 Clarendon Press) - 2 vols
Tam O'Shanter (1934 Sampson Press, London) - 250. Iain Macnab
Robert Burn's Commonplace Book 1783-5 (1938 Gowans & Gray, Glasgow) - 475. Facsimile
Poetical Works of Robert Burns : Bicentenary Edition (1958 Chambers) - G W Lennox Paterson
Poems (1965 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Joan Hassall
Commonplace Book 1783-5 : Reproduced in Facsimile (1965 S Illinois UP)
The Poems and Songs (edited by James Kinsley) (1968 Clarendon Press) - 3 vols
Offered in 1998 for £200
The Letters of Robert Burns (1985 Clarendon) - 2 vols
The Songs of Robert Burns (1993 Routledge) - edited by Donald Low
READING
Robert Heron : A Memoir of the Life of the Late Robert Burns (1797 T Brown, Edinburgh)
Josiah Walker : An Account of the Life & Character of Robert Burns (1811 Edinburgh)
John Gibson Lockhart : Life of Robert Burns (1828 Constable, Edinburgh) - 7 vols
James M'Kie : The Bibliography of Robert Burns (1881 James M'Kie, Kilmarnock) - 660 signed
J B Reid : A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems & Songs
of Robert Burns (1889 Kerr & Richardson, Glasgow)
W Jacks : Robert Burns in Other Tongues - A Critical Review of the Translations
of the Songs & Poems (1896 Maclehose, Glasgow)
(Ed) Robert Chambers : The Life and Works of Robert Burns (1896 Chambers) - 4 vols
(c1910 Waverley Book Co, London) - 4 vols
J O Mitchell : Burns and His Times, as gathered from his Poems (1897 Maclehose, Glasgow)
Catherine Carswell : The Life of Robert Burns (1930 Chatto & Windus)
Maurice Lindsay : The Burns Encyclopaedia (1959 Hutchinson)
J W Egerer : A Bibliography of Robert Burns (1964) (1965 Oliver & Boyd - corrected issue)
G R Roy : Robert Burns (1966)
(Ed) Donald A Low : Robert Burns - The Critical Heritage (1974 Routledge)
(Ed) Donald A Low : Critical Essays on Robert Burns (1975 Routledge)
James Mackay : A Biography of Robert Burns (1992 Mainstream)
Ian McIntyre : Dirt & Deity - A Life of Robert Burns (1995 Harper Collins £20)
Liam McIlvanney : Burns the Radical (2003 Tuckwell Press £16.99)