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An answer to Mr. Shaw's Inquiry into the authenticity of the poems ascribed to Ossian. By John Clark, translator of the Caledonian bards, and member of the Society of Scots Antiquaries

by John Clark

<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;"> 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. 76 pages, f. [1] (blank). Calf-backed marbled boards. Gilded spine on 5 bars; edges spread in red. Tipped between pp. 32-33: newspaper clip with letter "To the printer of the Morning Chronicle," signed Thomas Percy, Nov. 10, 1781.</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;">Vigorous reply to the Reverend William Shaw’s ‘An Enquiry into the Authenticity of the Poems Ascribed to Ossian’ (see Bib# 4103343/Fr# 641 in this collection) by a strong believer.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line

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