The poems of Ossian / translated by James Macpherson, esq. ; to which are prefixed a preliminary discourse and dissertation on the æra and poems of Ossian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macpherson, James, 1736-1796, author.

Contributor:

Derby, J. C. (James Cephas), 1818-1892, publisher.

Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones, 1876-1969, former owner.

Phillips, Sampson & Company, publisher.

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ossian, active 3rd century--Poetry.

Ossian.

Ossian, active 3rd century.

Literary forgeries and mystifications--Early works to 1800.

Literary forgeries and mystifications.

Mythology, Celtic--Ireland--Poetry.

Mythology, Celtic.

Bards and bardism--Poetry.

Bards and bardism.

Celts.

Ireland.

Celts--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Early works.

Publishers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)

Physical Description:

492, 12 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Phillips, Sampson, and Company ; New York : J.C. Derby, 1855.

Notes:

Said to have been a source book for Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass.

Added engraved title leaf.

"Phillips, Sampson, & Co.'s catalogue of new and valuable publications, sold by all booksellers throughout the United States, Canadas, and British provinces.": Pages. 1-12 (second count).

Local Notes:

Whitman Collection copy has contemporary[?] manuscript note at head of page [5]; paper slip with manuscript notes in pencil laid in.

Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.

Whitman Collection copy: spine split; backstrip detached from spine; pages 195-202 detached from textblock.

OCLC:

9904454