Title: Skaldestycken af Ossian Öfversatte från Engelskan
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;"> 3 parts in one 8vo. volume. pp. 118, 146, 98. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Bookplate of Gustaf Berndtsson on front pastedown.</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;">First Swedish edition of a highly successful 19,000-word epic by ‘Ossian,’ a blind bard of third-century Argyllshire, recounting the fading glory of his warrior-brethren among the Highland clans. The work was purporting to be translations of Gaelic originals but was in fact a fabrication by James Macpherson (1736-1796).</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039123899707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>