£150
8vo, pp. viii, 180. Later half dark blue calf, marbled boards, spine divided by double gilt rules, green morocco label, edges sprinkled red. First and last leaves damp-marked to margins and lightly toned. Binding a little rubbed, spine dulled. Ownership inscription of Northcomb to title-page.
An anonymous rhyming translation of the first of Macpherson's Ossian poems, which was first published in Macpherson's blank verse in 1762. A version in 'English Heroic Verse' by Islay clergyman John Wodrow had appeared in an Edinburgh printing in 1771 but this is a different translation, one which was popular enough at least to reach a second edition in 1777.
