Shelfmark
Go.9.02 - Go.9.03
Title
The poems of Ossian. Translated by James Macpherson.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed by J. D. Dewick, for Lackington, Allen, and Co. Temple of the Muses, Finsbury-square., 1803..
Physical description
2 v. : ill (engravings) ; 19 cm.
Note
Frontispiece signatures: "Atkinson del[ineavi]t" and "Angus sculp[sit]".
Note
Pagination: v.1 -- xiii, [3], 320 p. and [1] leaf of plates; 2 v. -- [4], 363, [1] p. and [3] leaves of plates.
Provenance
v.1: Black bookplate of Eton College Library, undated, with college crest and initials "RS" (Reynolds Stone) on first front flyleaf recto.
Provenance
v.1: Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: "Sold by H. George, Orange Grove, Bath."
Provenance
v.2: plain label of Eton College Library on first front flyleaf.
Binding
19th-century red morocco over millboards. Covers decorated with gilt roll to form a border, gilt roll on board edges and turn-ins. Spine flat, decorated with gilt tools, rolls, and titling ("Ossian's poems"). Textblock trimmed and gilted. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated wove paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock. The second front flyleaf has been torn off.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmarks: Go.9.15, Go.7.15, En.6.2.
Subject
Subject
Literary forgeries and mystifications.
Subject
Bards and bardism Poetry.
Added entry--name
Macpherson, James, 1736 - 1796 translator.
Added entry--name
Dewick, Joseph Dalton printer.
Added entry--name
Lackington, Allen and Co. bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51100