Shelfmark
Iaa3.5.05(01)-(02)
Author
Uniform title
[Poems of Ossian French 1777]
Title
Ossian, fils de Fingal, barde due troisième siècle : poésies gallilques traduites sur l'anglois de M. Macpherson, par M. Le Tourneur.
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris : Chez Musier, Fils, Libraire, rue du Foin-Saint-Jacques, MDCCLXXVII [1777]
Physical description
2v. ; 27 cm.
Note
French translation of the texts of James Macpherson, purporting to be translations of Gaelic originals but largely written by James Macpherson.
Note
Both vols bound together.
Note
Both vols with a half-title.
Note
Vol 2 with two final pages of advertisements.
Note
Ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College School Library recording donation: "Major General Villiers Hatton" (typed).
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Villiers Hatton.
Provenance
Bookseller's ms. notes in pencil.
Binding
18th century vellum with gilt tooling on boards, spine, and turn-ins, gilt on black leather lettering piece on spine, and pink silk endpapers ; [?]19th century landscape fore-edge painting and gilt edges.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 former owner.
Added entry--name
Musier, Jean-Baptiste-Guillaume, ? - d.1810 publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Identifier
B26803