James Macpherson: First Edition (26 results)
Published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co. /Macmillan & Co., London & New York 1894
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- First Edition
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ex-library copy with labels on the spine and front cover, bookplate in front, and pocket in rear. Book is cocked. Front inner hinge is cracked, rear inner hinge is partially cracked. Page margins are lightly browned. ; "Containing a particular account of his famous quarrel with Dr. John…son and a sketch of the origin and influence of the Ossianic Poems.".
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Seller: Three Geese in Flight Celtic Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Three Geese in Flight Celtic Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Clean Hardcover Near Fine Dust Jacket.First Edition Hardcover Not Price Clipped NOT a library book Boston, 1989 Illus. b/w Portrait Photo of James Macpherson. Clean inside and out. Biography of the father of the Celtic literary revival Excellent bibliogra…phy as well.Despite being mostly a creation of fiction, the popularity of 'Ossian', created a demand for true Celtic epic poetry and prose. Three Geese in Flight Celtic Studies since 1977 We wrap first in brown paper to protect dust jacket in transit.
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Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 171pp. Frontispiece. Fine/very good. Faint jacket rubbing. Handsome, tight first edition of this volume in series editor Bertram H. Davis's "Twayne's English Authors Series." MacPherson (1736-96) was a Scottish poet and writer best remembered as…supposed "translator" of epic poems by a third century bard, Ossian, that he claimed to have discovered.
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- First Edition
Seller: Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member, Houlton, ME, U.S.A.Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member
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Soft cover. Condition: VERY GOOD ++. 1st Edition. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia 44. 145pp, bound in stiff paper covers, with binding and hinges tight. Errata slip laid-in. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Text is in English.
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Published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford. 1986
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- First Edition
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, AustraliaLawrence Jones Books
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 228pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices. Or black cloth in jacket. Light rubbing and slight edge wear to jacket, tear at top of rear jacket panel. Copnsiders the ltierary forgeries of Macpherson and Chatterton in terms of the important 18th centu…ry debate about the validity of using literature as a hisotrical source. In this context Macpherson's imaginary Scottish bard Ossian; and Chatterton's medieval authors can be seen as historical fiction succumbing to the pressure to be original ancient literature. Size: 8vo.
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Published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford, New Jersey 1987
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 228 pp, acknowledgments, Introduction, 7 chapters with Appendixes 1-4, Notes, Bibliography, Index. 6.3" x 9.5" black cloth boards, gilt spine letters, in blue & white DJ with acetate protector Size: Slim Octavo. Book.
Published by ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2006
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Soft Cover. Condition: F-. First Edition. Square 8vo. original printed paper wraps (slightly rubbed & creased, a trifle marked); pp. unpaginated, with illustrations. A near fine copy.
More imagesPublished by J. Ferrall 1817
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First Edition. First edition of this early translation - volume 1 only .Appears to be in the original boards with spine missing. Internally a Good+ copy with neat bookplate to front pastedown, Scarce.
Published by London: David Nutt, Long Acre 1905
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. London: David Nutt, Long Acre; FIRST EDITION (1905). Hardcover (Maroon cloth, Gilt title on the spine, Gilt upper edge), no dj. No Wear. Signature on the Flyleaf. Occasional Marginals marks. Strong tight binding, Excellent hinges. 7.75"x5.3"x1.2". be25900.
Published by London : W. Miller, J. Murray, and J. Harding 1805
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Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Back board detached. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age. Includes some tape repair. Physical description; vol. III (only): 359 pages. Subjects; James Macpherson (1736-1796). Poetry. 3 Kg.
Published by London : W. Miller, J. Murray, and J. Harding 1805
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Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age. Tape repair with some loss to the spine. Physical description; vol. I (only): 243 pages. Subjects; James Macpherson (1736-1796). Poetry. 3 Kg.
Published by Archibald Constable and Co. Etc, Edinburgh 1805
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Seller: Robert Wright, trading as 'The Bookman', Norwich, , United KingdomRobert Wright, trading as 'The Bookman'
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Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Laing's contribution to exposing Macpherson's forgery. VOL. I ONLY (OF II). Fortunately Laign's general criticisms aree contained within his Preface. Collation: 2 blanks; half-title; frontispiece of James Macpherson (off-set unto title page); title page; Laign's Prefa…ce from page v; Literary Anecdotes of James Macpherson, Esq. from page xlix; Poems of Ossian, &c. from page lv to 579 ending with the poem Berrathon; 2 blanks. Pages 95/96 are missing. HOWEVER pages 97/98 are repeated except from different formes so clearly a manufacturing fault. Bound in contemporary full calf with gilt title, rules and repeated motifs to the spine. Dark marks on boards (worse on rear board). Leather joints split but cords holding. Hinges intact. Foxing to early and late pages. Text block very tight and regular. Pages crisp, bright and clean. A selection of images may be made available on request. A heavy book at 1200g packaged so overseas customers are advised to contact us first as regards to postage. A book in very good condition. PRICE INCLUDES UK POST AND PACKING. Hardback.
Published by London : W. Miller, J. Murray, and J. Harding 1805
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First Edition. Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age. Tape repair with some loss to the spine. Physical description; vol. I (only): 243 pages. Subjects; James Macpherson (1736-1796). Poetry. 1 Kg.
Published by London : W. Miller, J. Murray, and J. Harding 1805
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Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, , IrelandMW Books Ltd.
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First Edition. Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Back board detached. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age. Includes some tape repair. Physical description; vol. III (only): 359 pages. Subjects; James Macpherson (1736-1796). Poetry. 1 Kg.
Published by London : Printed for William Miller 1812
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Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age. Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; vol. II (only): 335 pages. Subjects; Ossian. Scottish Gaelic poetry. 3 Kg.
Published by London : Printed for William Miller 1812
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Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, , IrelandMW Books Ltd.
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First Edition. Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age. Includes previous owner's signature. Physical description; vol. II (only): 335 pages. Subjects; Ossian. Scottish Gaelic poetry. 1 Kg.
Published by Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, in the Strand, London 1762
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, no dj - from a historical society library - some adgewear, minimal/no foxing, plain brown spine.
Published by Sir Richard Phillips & Co., London 1822
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Quarter Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Later copious defence of James Macpherson by Hugh Campbell F.A.S. In two volumes. In original publisher's binding - brown paper covered boards over cloth spines with printed paper title labels. Complete with fold-out map and three plates all by Hugh Campbell. Boards and a…ll edges dusty; one section proud and holding by one thread; end papers and frontispieces browned; occasional foxing throughout; string damage to top edge of rear board - maximum 5mm. All pages appear to be present buth collation leaves something to be desired. Prelims pages lxxiii to lxxxiv are repeated at the end of the second volume and divide The Song of Selma. A selection of images may be made available on request. A heavy set at 1250g (packaged) so overseas customers are advised to contact us as regards postage. A set in good condition. PRICE INCLUDES UK POST AND PACKING. Hugh Campbell (illustrator). Hardback.
Published by London: E. W. Allen, 4 Ave Maria Lane Paternoster Row 1884
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- First Edition
Seller: Ethnographics, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.Ethnographics
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. unkEdition: Undated but 1884. 16mo green printed stapled wrappers, edge chipping, closed cover tear, spine wear, front cover reattached, spotting, stains ow G: [4]+132pp Entertaining volume on five infamous literary imposters--'Chatterton and the Rowley Poems'; 'Macpherson's Poems o…f Ossian'; 'The Shakspeare Forgery'; 'Psalmanazar and the Formosa Imposture'; and 'Bentley and the Epistles of Phalaris'. Henry Riddell Montgomery (1818-1904) Irish newspaper owner, was the author who is described on the title-page as 'Author of "Memoirs of Sir R. Steele and his Contemporaries;" "Thomas Moore: his Life and Writings;" "Bickerstaff Illustrated." &c.'. A Scarce title. (COPAC only lists copies at the British Library and National Library of Scotland)./The original Epistles of Phalaris were said to have been written by Phalaris, tyrant of Acragas, Sicily, from c. 570 554 BC. In his 1699 dissertation, English scholar Richard Bentley attacked the authenticity of the letters and declared that they were written much later, possibly by Adrianus of Tyre in the first century AD. He argued that certain cities mentioned in the letters were not founded during the lifetime of Phalaris, therefore the letters could not have been written by him. Today the author of the letters has become known as Pseudo-Phalaris by most scholars./The "Thomas Rowley" poems of Thomas Chatterton (175270), which the youthful author attempted to pass off as the work of a medieval cleric.Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770). Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century. London: T. Payne and Son, 1778. writers who forged literary works as a means to advance their own career, as was the case of the eighteenth-century English poet Thomas Chatterton. In the muniment room of St. Mary Redcliff Church, Bristol, Chatterton found two boxes containing medieval manuscripts that once belonged to his father. The discovery of these manuscripts provided Chatterton with the main inspiration, and even with a suitable model, to compose "medieval poetry". In fact, he created an entire fictional fifteenth-century world around an imaginary monk and author, Thomas Rowley, who, according to Chatterton, was at different times a priest, a poet, and an antiquarian. Moreover, he added the real historical figure of William Canynge, five-time mayor of Bristol, whom Rowley supposedly served as a biographer and literary agent. But this intelligent plan would not have initially succeeded without careful research. Chatterton examined medieval manuscripts not only from St. Mary Redcliff Church but also from local libraries and bookstores in order to create a fifteenth-century hand. He consulted medieval glossaries and etymological dictionaries to fabricate what he erroneously thought was a version of fifteenth-century Englishhis medieval vocabulary included some 1,800 words. More dramatically, he did not hesitate to manufacture manuscripts that looked old by rubbing the parchment with dirt or dying it with tea. If he didn't produce a manuscript, he simply claimed that the poems in question had been copied from an original version that existed elsewhere (Grafton, 1990: 50-3; Rosenblum, 2000: 57-105)./The Ireland Shakespeare forgeries were a cause célèbre in 1790s London, when author Samuel Ireland announced the discovery of a treasure-trove of Shakespearean manuscripts by his son William Henry Ireland. Among them were the manuscripts of four plays, two of them previously unknown. such respected literary figures as James Boswell pronounced them genuine, as did various antiquarian experts. Sheridan agreed to present one of the newly discovered plays. Excitement over the significance of the find turned to acrimony when Edmond Malone, the great Shakespeare scholar, conclusively showed that the language, orthography, and handwriting were faked; William Ireland, the supposed discoverer, then confessed to the fraud.
More imagesPublished by Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, in the Strand, London 1762 [1761], 1763 1762
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First Edition. Two volume set: Bound in full leather (covers detached) . 270mm x 210mm, 270pp.247pp Bookplates to pastedowns and feps. Small portion (not affecting text) of loss to title page of volume 1 otherwise a Good copy of these Scottish 'classics'., which are thought to have been the work of McPherson.
Published by Printed for Richard Fitzsimons, in High-Street 1762
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Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, IrelandKennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd.
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Condition: Good. 1762. Hardback. Small Octavo, in original full leather covers. Covers showing age and wear, cracked at spine, thus loose, and partial missing top layer of leather on front and back. Stitching intact, loose in parts, all pages remain intact. Toned, some foxing, text is crisp and clear. Previous owner has pasted n…ewspaper articles on the poems on Ossian on ffep, remains a fine example of a first Irish edition. First edition copy. . . .
More imagesPublished by Salisbury: printed by Brodie and Dowding on the Canal; and sold by Wilkie London and all other booksellers nd
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Seller: WestField Books, York, United KingdomWestField Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. [4], 388p. Academic consensus suggests a publication date between 1812 and 1817. Original half-calf, sl. abraded at corners. Name to half-title verso. Some corners turned down. A rare title.
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Seller: Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, , DenmarkHerman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF
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Inverness, John Young, 1804. A little later hcalf, raised bands, gilt back. Bound with: An Original Collection of the Poems of Ossian, Oranu, Ulin, An others Bards, who flourished in the Same Age. Collected and edited by Hugh and John M'Callum. Montrose, James Watt, 1816. VIII,460 pp. and 241,(2) pp. M'Callums work is first edit…ion, a work inspired by Macpherson's fake.
More imagesPublished by Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, London 1762
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Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB)
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. 4to, [16], [i]-xvi, 1-270pp; full contemporary calf. A nice copy of the first edition of the greatest literary hoax of the 18th century. Although suspicions about MacPherson's authorship were almost immediate -- most notably from Samuel Johnson -- many readers were taken in by his purported discovery of ancient Ga…elic manuscripts. The poems of Ossian became a sensation throughout Europe and found enthusiastic admirers, including most famously, Goethe and Napoleon. The poems were reprinted many times and exerted a significant influence upon the development of Romantic literature. Light even toning and some wrinkling to pages; a few marks on endsheets; covers rubbed with the beginning of wear to hinges, which are still sound.
More imagesPublished by M. Cooper, London 1745
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition. First edition. [iv], 47, [1] pp., with half-title. 8vo. First edition of the second of three anti-Jacobite tracts written by Fielding in October 1745 in response to the rebellion in Scotland. The work purports to be derived from the eyewitness account of Highlander James Macpherson, "entirely a figment of Fielding…'s imagination" (Battestin, p. 398). The work was published anonymously and later identified as Fielding's in Andrew Millar's advertisement of the author's works in the second edition of Sarah Fielding's Cleopatra and Octavia (1758). A fine copy in contemporary paneled calf of one of Fielding's rarest works on the market, with ABPC recording no copies sold at auction. [bound after:] PATTEN, Robert. The History of the Rebellion in the Year 1715 . London: James Roberts, 1745. Folding map. Fourth edition [and:] FERGUSON, Capt. Adam. A Genuine Account of all the Persons of Note in Scotland, Who are Now Engaged in the Service of the Chevalier. London: J. Robinson, [c. 1745] [and:] Two Letters from a Gentlewoman Near Edinburgh to Her Daughter in London: Containing a Plain and Unaffected Narrative of What has Passed in that City Since the Commencement of the Present Rebellion. London: J. Robinson, 1745. Cross III, p. 310-1. Provenance: Archibald Algernon Henry St. Maur, 13 Duke of Somerset (bookplate); Duncan Cameron (bookplate); Louis & Anne Marie Davidson (bookplate) Contemporary Cambridge calf, gilt spine, citron morocco spine label, board edges gilt, a.e.g. Small ink splatter to margin of one page, else fine, in a custom cloth felt-lined clamshell box [iv], 47, [1] pp., with half-title. 8vo.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Keine ausfuehrliche Beschreibung fuer GEDICHTE OSSIAN BD. 3 GO verfuegbar.
