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The poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal / translated by James Macpherson, Esq.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3544 .A1 1790b copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Macpherson, James, 1736-1796.
- Standardized Title:
- Ossian
- 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.
- Penn Provenance:
- Pemberton, Susan, Miss (donor) (RBC copy)
- Dallett, Joseph B. (donor) (RBC copy 2)
- King, Apollos (former owner) (inscription) (RBC copy 2)
- Leavitt, Thaddeus (former owner) (inscription) (RBC copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, vii pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 12-502 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- A new edition, carefully corrected and greatly improved.
- Fingerprint:
- e.is 8777 d.p- fewi (3) 1790 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Lang ..., MDCCXC [1790]
- Notes:
- The purported translations from the Gaelic are actually Macpherson's own works, written in English.
- Signatures: [A]⁴ b² B-3R⁴ (leaf 3R4 blank).
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Joseph B. Dallett.
- RBC copy 2 has ms. ownership inscriptions ("Apollos King's Booke. Apollos King's Booke."), struck through, followed by another dated 19th-century ms. ownership and purchase inscription ("Thaddeus Leavitts Book bought at auction Dec[ember]. 27th. 1810"), on front free endpaper. The first owner is Apollos King (1766-1810) of Suffield, Conn.; the second is probably either his brother-in-law Thaddeus Leavitt (1750-1826) or his son Thaddeus Leavitt (1778-1828).
- RBC copy 2 has dated 19th-century ms. ownership inscription ("T. Leavitts Book 1810") on back pastedown, probably of either Thaddeus Leavitt (1750-1826) of Suffield, Conn., or his son Thaddeus Leavitt (1778-1828).
- Cited in:
- ESTC W27707
- Evans 22633
- Contains:
- Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800. Critical dissertation on the poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal.
- OCLC:
- 4121673
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