Title: Critical dissertations on the origin, antiquities, language, government, manners, and religion, of the ancient Caledonians, their posterity the Picts, and the British and Irish Scots. By James Macpherson, D. D. Minister of Slate, in the Isle of Sky
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 4to. ff. [2] (blank), pp. xxiv, [2], 382, [2], ff. [2] (blank). Calf. Spine on 5 bars, with red panel and gilded title. Edges spread in red. Marbled pastedowns. </span><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">Includes head- and tailpieces and initials. </span></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Bookplate of the inventor James Watts. Anonymous preface by James Macpherson himself; a few authorial manuscript corrections on pp. 95 and 153.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">This posthumously published work by John Macpherson of Sleat, on the Isle of Skye,who was not related to James, provided some literary and historical back-up to the “authenticity” of ‘Fingal.’ See H. Gaskill (ed.), Ossian Revisited. Edinburgh, 1991; ESTC, T96376.
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