Fingal, A Poem in Six Books, by Ossian: Translated from the Original Galic [sic] by Mr Macpherson, and Rendered into Verse from that Translation.

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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. ESTC T137508. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6026

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