Poems on several occasions
By: By Myles Cooper, M.A. of Queen's College, Oxford
Contributors: Macpherson, James, 1736-1796
Publisher: Printed by W. Jackson.
Published: 1761
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Notes: Title vignette: engraving of buildings.

Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁴ B-Y⁸ Z⁴ (-Z4)

Page 281 misnumbered 218.

Author became the second president of Kings' College, New York.

Errata statement, p. xxxix.

"Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Galic or Erse language" : p. [257]-342; this work was "versified from a literal prose translation ... by Mr. [James] McPherson ..." (cf. p. 259)

Also contains "Britannia's tears: an elegiac ode, occasioned by the death of General Wolfe" :p. 69-76 and "Epitaph on General Wolfe" : p. 254.

John Carter Brown Library copy purchased with the assistance of the L.C. Harper Fund.

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary calf with marbled boards.