THE POEMS OF OSSIAN THE SON OF FINGAL
New Haven: Sidney's Press for Evert Duyckinck and James & Thomas Ronalds, 1806. scotes. New Edition, carefully corrected and greatly improved. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. 308, 316. Illustrated with six engraved plates by Scoles. Bound in contemporary rubbed full calf, closed tear across the imprint of volume 2. some foxing, a good set. This imprint not in Shaw and Shoemaker. A critical dissertation on the poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal. By Hugh Blair, D.D. One of the ministers of the high church, and professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres, in the University of Edinburgh."--v. 2, p. [181]-287. Item #51366
James Macpherson (Scottish Gaelic: Seumas MacMhuirich or Seumas Mac a' Phearsain) (r 1736 – 1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems.
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