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Total number of records: 116

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Books and printed items113
Art items1
Objects1
Archives1

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Brotherton Collection54
English Literature47
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Leeds Russian Archive1
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

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poets, scottish4
ballads, scottish3
songs, scottish3
carols1
carols, english1
commonplace-books1
english poetry1
folk songs, english1
folk songs, scots1
folk songs, welsh1

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Scotland4
Edinburgh (Scotland)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Burns, Robert (1759-1796)116
Currie, James (1756-1805)24
Wilson, John24
Wilson, John (1785-1854)24
Burns, Gilbert (1760?-1827)14
Burns, Robert13
Currie, James13
Burns, Robert, 1759-179612
Thomson, Mr (1757-1851)11
Cadell, Thomas (1773-1836)8

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Robert Burns ring and silhouettes

Burns, Robert (1759-1796)

c.1760-1820

The file consists of a courting ring and two silhouettes. One of the silhouettes is of Burns, the other of his mother, Agnes.

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Yrkingar

Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Mattras, Christian

1945

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The poetical works of Robert Burns, to which is prefixed a sketch of his life

Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Chalmers, Alexander (1759-1834)

1813

The title-page is engraved.

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Robert Burns' courting ring

Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Armour, Jean (1765-1834)

c.1780

Courting ring given by Robert Burns to Jean Armour. The couple were married in Mauchline parish church in 1788. The ring features a landscape bezel set in a band made of twisted gold metal. The bez...

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A manuscript anthology of early 19th century English poetry, including works by Lord Byron, John Keats and Anna Letitia Barbauld

Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Keats, John (1795-1821); Clare, John (1793-1864); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Barbauld, Mrs (Anna Letitia) (1743-1825)

1825-1830

The anthology includes works by the following romantic poets: Lord Byron (including his My Soul is Dark), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (including his Fears in Solitude), William Wordsworth (including his E...

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The Glenriddell manuscripts of Robert Burns

Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Riddell, Robert (1794)

1973

Reprint of 2 manuscript vols. of poems and letters, assembled for Robert Riddell, chiefly in Burns' holograph, now in the National Library of Scotland.

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Had we never met - or parted : glee for four voices

Shore, William (1791-1877); Burns, Robert (1759-1796)

[1835?]

Pl. no. : 7796.

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Had we never met - or parted : glee for four voices

Shore, William (1791-1877); Burns, Robert (1759-1796)

[1835?]

Pl. no. : 7796.

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Les plaisirs de la mémoire : poème de Samuel Rogers, traduit de l'anglais en vers français, avec le texte en regard et des notes; suivi de la charte et d'un conte, traduits également de l'anglais, par M. Albert-Montemont... [etc.]

Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Williams, Helena Maria

1825

Introductory matter in French, text of the poem in English and French vis-à-vis.

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