Temora, an ancient epic poem, In eight books

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 4to. f. [1] (blank), pp. [4], xxxiv, [2], 247, [1] (blank). Signatures: pi²a-d⁴e²B-2I⁴. Calf. Gilt tooled spine, red lettering panel. Title page engraved by Isaac Taylor. Includes press figures. Bookplate of Franz Pollack-Parnau. In English with a poem in Gaelic.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Not translated, but in fact by James Macpherson. After the massive success of his work ‘Fingal’ (see Bib# 4656328/Fr# 621 in this collection), Macpherson followed it up with the present work, another Ossianic poem, and reputed to be Napoleon’s favorite. This time it was nearly all of his own creation, and described by his modern editor Howard Gaskill as ‘almost entirely fraudulent.’ Macpherson provided a twenty-page ‘specimen’ of Boo