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James . b. Kilmarnock 7 Oct. 1816; bookseller at Salt coats to 1844; publisher at Kilmarnock in the shop from which first edition of Burns’ poems was i ued 1844; started the Kilmarnock Journal and Kilmarnock Weekly Post; published Bibliotheca Burns i an a 1866; Poems chiefly in the Scotch dialect. By R. Burns, facsimile ed. 1869; Burns’ Calendar 1874; The bibliography of Robert Burns 1881 and other books about Burns; his own library of nearly 800 vols. concerning Burns was purchased by subscription for £350 and is in museum of the Burns’ Monument at Kilmarnock. d. Kilmarnock 26 Sep. 1891. Kilmarnock Standard 3 Oct. 1891 , portrait . Note. —He was twice publicly entertained, once on the jubilee of his busine and again on the transfer of his library to the museum.