The Poems of Ossian, The Son of Fingal. Translated by James MacPherson, Esq. A New Edition. Carefully Corrected, and Greatly Improved.
The Poems of Ossian, The Son of Fingal. Translated by James MacPherson, Esq. A New Edition. Carefully Corrected, and Greatly Improved.

The Poems of Ossian, The Son of Fingal. Translated by James MacPherson, Esq. A New Edition. Carefully Corrected, and Greatly Improved.

  • [Macpherson, James]
  • Berwick: Printed by and for W. Phorson 1795
  • ESTC T137505.

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2 vols., 12mo, pp. 308; 318, [2]. Untrimmed in original marbled paper over card wrappers backed in brown paper, spine of vol. 2 numbered in ink, manuscript paper label. Somewhat soiled, edges worn, spine of vol. 1 defective, that of vol.2 partially so but cords holding, corners creased. Ownership inscription of George Sanderson to flyleaf of vol. 1, gift inscriptions to Mary E. McQueen[?] from A.S.D. to both vols.

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A provincial printing of Macpherson's Ossian poems which also reprints Hugh Blair's critical dissertation to the rear of volume 2, in a fragile but substantially-complete binding of marbled-paper wrappers.

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