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James MacPherson.

deGATEGNO, Paul J.

Boston: Twayne Publishers, [1989]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 171pp. Frontispiece. Fine/very good. Faint jacket rubbing. Item #46748
ISBN: 0805769757

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.

Price: $35.00