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Detailed Entry: The Rev. Thomas Ross, A.M.; and James Macpherson Fingal; an Epic Poem. Translated from the Original Gaelic . . . with the Old Translation, by James Macpherson

Author(s) The Rev. Thomas Ross, A.M.; and James Macpherson
Unattributed Authorship No
Title Fingal; an Epic Poem. Translated from the Original Gaelic . . . with the Old Translation, by James Macpherson
Editor(s) or Translator(s) Thomas Ross
Place(s) of Publication Edinburgh
Publisher(s) Printed by Charles Stewart
Publication Date 1807
Format 24 cm.
Pagination or volumes viii + 335 + [1]
Reference BL; Google Books
Comment Parallel translations by Ross and Macpherson. Only 30 copies printed, "at the desire of Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, Baronet, Chairman of the Committee of the Highland Society of London, appointed for superintending the publication of the Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic."

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