This is a guide to the most comprehensive collection of "Burns and Burnsiana outside of the United Kingdom". Established in 1989, the "G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns and Burnsiana at the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library" is one of the world's foremost collections dedicated to the study of Scotland's greatest poet. G. Ross Roy, an internationally renowned Burns scholar, inherited the origins of this collection from his grandfather in 1958. Since that time, the dynamic collection has increased fivefold - and continues to expand through new acquisitions. This illustrated catalogue of the collection's expansive holdings is being published in 2009 on the occasion of "Burns"' 250th birthday as a guide to the current collection for researchers and collectors alike. Of the approximately six thousand items described in the catalogue, the largest sections are works by Burns and items of Burnsiana. These include not only separate editions of the poet's major works but...

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