Title: Fragments of ancient poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and Translated from the Galic or Erse Language / The highlander : A poem
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">8vo. Calf, spine with elevated bars.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">Bound with four other works:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">William Mason, Elfrida, a Dramatic Poem. Written on the Model of The Ancient Greek Tragedy. By Mr. Mason. Edinburgh, Printed for for G[avin] Hamilton and J[ohn] Balfour, 1755;</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">[Arthur Murphy], The desert island, a dramatic poem As it is acted at Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. London, Printed for Paul Vaillant, 1755;</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">Robert Blair, The grave. A poem. By Robert Blair. The Fifth Edition. Edinburgh, Printed for William Gray junior, 1751;</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon, Advice and consolation for a person in distress and dejection of mind, with some thoughts on the remedys of dissipation. Wrote for the use of a friend by M. de Fenelon, Archbishop and Duke of Cambray. Translated from the French. Glasgow, Printed and sold by R. &amp; A. Foulis, 1750. </span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><b><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;"><br /></span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><b><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">Fragments of ancient poetry:</span></font><br /></b></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;">There are two copies in this collection. The present (f. [1] (blank), pp. 70, f. [1] (blank)) has manuscript contents on endpaper and on first blank. There is a signature of W. Tytler on its title page with a manuscript note on the actual author "by James Macpherson and published by Dr. Hugh Blair F.T.D." On the preface is a manuscript note "by Dr. Blair."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><br /></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;">The present work is the first edition of James Macpherson’s first collection of ‘Galic’ translations; a revised reprint of the same year contains one additional poem. See also ESTC, T83707.
</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/alma991039123799707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></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;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;"><b>The highlander: A poem: in Six cantos</b></span></font><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;"><b><br /></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">f. [1] (blank), pp. 82. Manuscript contents on endpapers. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">Very scarce first edition of the forger James Macpherson’s anonymous first book (original verse). Rare among educated Scots of his era in his familiarity with the Gaelic language and its still primarily oral literary tradition, Macpherson drew largely on both in his own early poetry, which brought him little critical success. ESTC, T107966 records the British Library copy (only) in England, three in Scotland, and four in America.</span><br /></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991041561259707861" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;"><br /></span></font></p>