<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. </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/alma991039124059707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>