[Rarebooks] fa: JAMES MACPHERSON'S HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN - 2 vols. - 1775

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other 17th-19th Century British books and  
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Thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A., CA USA

James Macpherson: The History of Great Britain, from the Restoration,  
to the Accession of the House of Hannover. Dublin: Printed for J.  
Exshaw, D. Chamberlaine, J. Potts, W. Sleater, J. Williams, W. Wilson,  
T. Walker, R. Moncrieffe, C. Jenkin, and M. Mills, 1775. Two volumes,  
8vo (21 cm), in full period polished calf, morocco spine labels tooled  
in gilt; 630 pp.; 588 + [50] pp; lacking table(?), if called for; with  
an index. ESTC T65487.

A sound, handsome set of this history of Great Britain from the years  
1660-1714. James Macpherson (1736-1796), Scottish poet, historian,  
antiquarian and pen-for-hire in the service of Lord North's ministry,  
earned his greatest fame (or notoriety) as the self-styled  
"translator" and editor of the putative works of Ossian, whose  
"discovery" in 1761 was one of the literary sensations of the 18th  
century.