the full details are that the gathering 'kk' appears to have been overlooked at first and as with the gatherings 'nn' to 'yy' the contents of the two impressions are identical. gatherings 'a' to 'f' bore the title page, portrait, dedication (dated 4 april 1787), etc. and were printed in one run towards the end of the process. the portrait was printed from a copper plate and close observation shows that is not printed onto the same laid or 'chain and line' type of paper but on wove or velin paper that lacks the visible lines of the laid. the "subscribers names" list required an addenda. all the errors and differences in the partial second impression occur in gatherings 'aa' to 'ii' and 'll' to 'mm'. for example on ( 9 ), the very first page of poems, the line "that bears the name of auld king coel," has 'of' in the second impression and ' o' ' in the first.