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

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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

John Macpherson, James] (contr.) [Macpherson

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John Macpherson, James] (contr.) [MacphersonPublished 1768

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. Includes head- and tailpieces and initials. Bookplate of the inventor James Watts. Anonymous preface by James Macpherson himself; a few authorial manuscript corrections on pp. 95 and 153. 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. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039124059707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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Publisher	printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt
Pages	428
Search language	english

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