Poesie di Ossian Figlio di Fingal, antico poeta Celtico, Ultimamente scoperte, e tradotte in prosa Inglese da Jacopo Macpherson, e da quella trasportate in verso Italiano Dall’ Ab. Melchior Cesarotti Con varie Annotazioni de’ due Traduttori. Tomo II

<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;">Second of 2 volumes in 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. CCCLXXXVI, [6], f. [1] (blank). Signatures: A-2A⁸ 2B⁴. Contemporary speckled sheep; in a folding case. Tooled filet on boards. Gilded spine on 5 bars, red panel. Edges spread in red. Manuscript inscription: "James Boswell From the Translator, near Padua 1765." Green bookmark. Each volume has half-title: "Poesie di Ossian." Woodcut title vignette. Engraved initials, woodcut tailpieces.</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;">First edition in Italian of the 1761 poem by James Macpherson (1736-1796), who was in literary and cultural terms perhaps the most influential of all forgers. Repeatedly encouraged by the Edinburgh literati, though professedly reluctant to continue his research int