The Poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin, and Other Bards Who Flourished in the Same Age

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Collected and Edited by Hugh and John M'Callum. Xci [4] 95-241pp., plus 59-page list of subscribers. A scarce and interesting chapter in the history of the supposed Gaelic bard Ossian, a notorious literary forgery. First published in the 1760's as a translation from Gaelic oral tradition by James MacPherson, the poems were recognized as fakes by Samuel Johnson, although the degree of fakery is still controversial. Here the M'Callums devote a 91-page preface to defending their authenticity, with a description of the tiny isle of Staffa, location of "Fingal's Cave." Published in the small Scottish town of Montrose, with nearly 6,000 subscribers from all over Scotland and the North of England, this is an odd and interesting book. Internally fine but for occasional faint foxing, in half-leather, worn at extremities and with a half-inch loss to spine head, andfront board detached. N° de ref. del artículo 007820

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