Book Details
| Author: | Drummond, William Hamilton: |
| Title: | Ancient Irish Minstrelsy. |
| Published: | Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1852. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 19 - Irish |
| Description: | xxviii, 292 pp + 2 pp ads. A collection of Irish poems known as Ossianic or Fenian which have been translated for the first time into English. With accompanying explanations. Contents include: Lay of Magnus the Great; Departure, Return and Lay of Magnus; Argean, son of Angart of the Ships; Moira Borb; The Chase of Slieve Guillin, The Chase of Glennasmol; The Battle of Gavra; Death of Oscar; Ossian's Courtship of Evirallin; The Chase of Slieve-ma-Man; Death of Carril; Combat of Fuath and Conan Maol; Beann Gulban; Cattle Prey of Tara; Talc Mac Trone; Lamentation of Aile; Conloch, Son of Cuchullin; The Champion of Italy; Defence of the Palace of Tara; Cuchullin's Chariot; Bas Oisin - Death Song of Ossian. Text clean throughout. Library blindstamp on title page only. Front and rear hinge cracking internally but binding sound. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Very short nicks in cloth at top and bottom of spine. Blindstamp decoration on boards. Overall condition VG. |
| Book Number: | #8140 |
| Price: | € 350.00 |
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