[Rarebooks] FOR SALE - AN UNUSUAL 18th CENTURY BOOK

[Norman Kane]

[MACPHERSON, JAMES.]
POETRY OF NATURE . . . SUBLIME & BEAUTIFUL. APOSTROPHES, HISTORIES, SONGS, ELEGIES,  &c. . . . WORKS OF THE CALEDONIAN BARDS.
London: J. P. Cooke, n.d., 1790 ?
Edited by Mary Potter. Best edition of this unusual book with "typographical execution in a style entirely new, and decorated with the superb ornaments of the celebrated Caslon."  Old half calf, rubbed. [2], 12, viii, 184 pages.  The first word of the title is printed from individual xylographic letters.  THE TEXT IS PRINTED ENTIRELY IN CURSIVE TYPE. The contents consist of selections from Macpherson's "Ossian" rendered in prose. ESTC # T119919 (the printing with all 12 pages of Subscribers, and with a colophon imprint., of which ESTC locates 5 copies in the U.S. & 4 in the U.K.) A SCARCE AND UNIQUE BOOK.

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