Vol. 1: THE | POEMS | OF | OSSIAN. | TRANSLATED | By JAMES MACPHERSON, Esq; | IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. | A NEW EDITION. | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR W. STRAHAN ; AND T. CADELL, | IN THE STRAND. | M DCC XC.||

Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] – t.p. / blank, [v] vi-xiv, [2] – contents / cont., [1, 2] 3-404, one blank leaf.

Collation: 8vo; π¹ A-Z⁸ Aa-Cc⁸ Dd²

Vol. 2: THE | POEMS | OF | OSSIAN. | TRANSLATED | By JAMES MACPHERSON, Esq; |  VOL. II. | A NEW EDITION. | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR W. STRAHAN ; AND T. CADELL, | IN THE STRAND. |M DCC XC.||

Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] – t.p. / blank, [2] – contents / blank, [1, 2] 3-436, [2] advert. / advert., two blank leaves.

Collation: 8vo; π4 B-Z⁸ Aa-Ee⁸ Ff² A¹.

Two volumes, 21.5 x 14 cm; hardcover; full tree calf gilt-tooled with stylized meander ruled boards inside and outside, flat spite tooled in gilt with meander and pineapples in compartments, two crimson lettered labels. margins speckled blue; peacock marbled endpapers, owner’s karks to front pastedown: Owen J. Williams sticker and H. A. Lonis armorial bookplate with an earl’s crown, hand-written inscription H. A. and H. C.  Williams Wynn and ink stamp of Arthur J. Frank.

James Macpherson (British, 1736–1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the “translator” of the Ossian cycle of epic poems.

Publishing Year: 1790

Publisher: W. Strahan and T. Cadell