Immigration Statistics: Information Gaps, Quality Issues Limit Utility of Federal Data to Policymakers: Report to Congressional Requesters

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...of John Wilson, the printer of the Poems, has long borne the unjust and unmerited reproach of being considered the Wee Johnie of the epitaph printed in the First Edition of the Poems, and probably written long before Burns and Wilson became acquainted. It is scarcely credible to suppose the Poet would insult his publisher in the volume passing through his own hands, yet, for eighty-five years, the constant repetition of a head or foot note to the epitaph strengthened the suspicion of its being circumstantial. Mrs. Begg, the Poet s sister, said the real object was an ill-conditioned cowfeeder at Mauchline, who used to annoy Burns on his way to and from the farm at Mossgiel. M KIE S EDITIONS. No other edition appeared in Kilmarnock till I867, when James M Kie, printer and publisher, issued a reprint and fac-simile of the Original Kilmarnock Edition. Price, I0s. 6d. Impression limited to 600 copies--fifty copies on large paper, price, One Guinea. In I868, a special Edition of the fa: -: imile reprint was ordered for America, consisting of 600 copies, all of them bearing the imprint AMERIcAu EnrrroN. In I869, three additional volumes, uniform with the fac-.1-imile reprint, were published to fonn a complete collection of the Poetical Works of Burns. The first volume containing Poems as they appeared in the early Edinburgh editions; the second volume, Posthumous Poems; and the third volume, Songs. Impression limited to 600 copies. Price, One Guinea. Twenty-five copies printed on large paper--price, Two Guineas. KILMARNOCK POPULAR EDITION. The complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns, arranged in the order of their earliest publication. Volume First embracing all the pieces published...