Illustrated London News
Celebrate 250 Years of Robert Burns
2009
 Here is a wonderful collection of Burns material amassed to celebrate
250 years of Burns by an antiquarian in the UK. He has reproduced
a collection from the Illustrated London News in CD form covering historic events
and news from the Centenary of the birth of Robert Burns in 1859.
To order go to the
 This is what is on the disk 25 wood engraved images and 34 articles
Engravings and articles (it is an engraving if not marked as an Article in italics)
1. "Alloway's auld haunted kirk" - half page approx 16cm x 25cm (plus article The Burns Centenary and it's meaning)
2. " (continuation of article The Burns Centenary and it's meaning)
3. Article " Town and table talk on Literature - just discussing Burns"
4. "Large scan nearly A2 of a double page engraving showing Burns in a field writing a poem surrounded by scenes from various other poems"
5. " Full Page scan of the large Burns engraving which is half the full engraving"
6. "Full page - the other half of the Large engraving of Burns (A2 is too big to scan)
7. Article "The Burns Centenary Festivals about what is happening in London, Bradford, Huddersfield, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Rochdale, Bristol, Southampton, Isle of Wight, Dumfries, Edinburgh and Glasgow - including an Ode on the Centenary of Burns"
8. Article "Burns prize Ode and about Miss Craig"
9. Article Advert "read Robert Burns in the Leisure Hour with portrait and engraving"
10. Article "Burns visit to Neil Gow"
11. Article poem "At ther grave of Robert Burns" by Charles Mackay
12. Article "Ayr and the birthplace of the poet"
13. "Burns visit to Neil Gow in August 1787" a group in sculpture by Anderson of Perth - Third of a page
14. "Burns cottage at Ayr" small
15. "Tam O' Shanter Tavern" small
16. "The room in which Burns was born" Third of a page
17. Article - continuation of "Ayr and the birthplace of the poet"
18. "Twa brigs of Ayr" - half page
19. "The auld Brig of Doon, with Burn's monument and a glimpse of Alloway kirk in the distance" half page
20. "The room in which Burns died at Dumfries"- quarter page
21. "Lincluden Abbey near Dumfries"- half page
22. Article "Isa Craig and the prize poem on Burns"
23. Article "The Burns Centenary at Dumfries"
24. "The Burn's mausoleum at Dumfries" - Half page (and continuation of the article "The Burns Centenary at Dumfries")
25. "Burns farm at Ellisland, on the river Nith, near Dumfries" Third of a page
26. " The Burns centenary festival: The procession in the high street, Dumfries" Full page landscape 39cm x 26cm
27. Article " Town and table talk on Literature concerning Burns pistols"
28. "Burns' house in Dumfries" small 10cm x 6cm approx
29. "Toothache" from a figure in stone by Mr. Anderson medium 8cm x 15cm approx
30. "The Globe Tavern, Dumfries" small
31. "The procession at Dumfries: triple arch in the High Street" Third of a page
32. Article continuation of the article "The Burns Centenary at Dumfries") on p128
33. "Festival at rhe Crystal Palace, Sydenham to Celebrate Burns Centenary" half page
34. Article "Festival at rhe Crystal Palace, Sydenham to Celebrate Burns Centenary"
35. "Room in the Globe Tavern, Dumfries, used by Burns" medium size
36. Article "The citizens banquet in the Corn Exchange, Edinburgh,in the Dunedin Hall
37. "The citizens banquet in the Corn Exchange, Edinburgh,in the Dunedin Hall" Full Page
38. Article " A sketch in the neighbourhood of Ayr" accompanies engraving see...
39. "A sketch near Ayr taken from the south side of the Doon" medium size
40. Article "the Burns celebations at Aberdeen"
41. Article "the Burns celebations at Birmingham"
42. Article "the Burns celebations at Carlisle"
43. .Article "the Burns celebations at Cheltenham"
44. Article "the Burns celebations at Derby"
45. Article "the Burns celebations at Bury"
46. Article "the Burns celebations at Bolton"
47. Article "the Burns celebations at Dublin"
48. Article "the Burns celebations at Dundee"
49. Article "the Burns celebations at Montrose"
50. Article "the Burns celebations at Greenock"
51. Article "the Burns celebations at Nottingham"
52. Article "the Burns celebations at Oldham"
53. Article "the Burns celebations at Paisley"
54. Article "the Burns celebrations at Perth"
55. Article "the letter of Burns to James Clarke"
56. "The Burns Press Chair" small
57. Article "The Burns Press Chair"
58. "The Burns banquet at Montreal" Full page
59. Article "The Burns Centenary Festivals in Canada"
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