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(1) Front cover
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Volumes 1 and 2
Description	Volumes I and II. (Volume I contains: 'An answer to Mr. Shaw's inquiry into the authenticity of the poems of Ossian. By John Clark ... Printed after the original, Edinburgh 1781.' which has its own title page and was also published separately.)
Shelfmark	Oss.161
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Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal
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Description	Printed for I.G. Fleischer (Frankfurt, 1783). 4 volumes bound in 2.
Shelfmark	Oss.161-162
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1783 [Date published]
Places:	Europe > Germany > Brandenburg > Frankfurt district > Frankfurt an der Oder (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content:	Celtic (culture) Epics Forgeries (derivative objects) Criticism
Person / organisation:	Fleischer, I. G. [Publisher] MacPherson, James, 1736-1796 [Author] Ossian, active 3rd century [Attributed name] Clark, John, -1807 [Contributor]
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Ossian Collection
Description	Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy.

Early Gaelic Book Collections
Description	Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history.