Fine details of the physical characteristics of the book are as follows:

• Spine: Belford, Clarke & Co., ornate gilt, blue inlays, floral motifs, and the publisher name at the base. Spine titled “Ossian’s Poems” in gilt with matching ornamental panels.
• Cover: Titled “Ossian”. Elaborate Victorian gift‑book style binding in brown cloth with gilt and dark‑blue inlays featuring a lyre surrounded by floral and foliate motifs.
• Endpapers: Floral patterned (daisy‑and‑vine motif).
• Inside pages: Text printed within red‑ruled borders throughout.
• Page count: 492.
• Page Edges: gilded edges (golden color).
• Published: sometime within this window: 1884–1886.
• Publisher’s Catalogue: No publisher’s catalog included at the back.
• Special note about this edition: this is a hybrid edition, meaning Lovell sheets are bound by Belford, Clarke & Co. Other publishers bought the unbound sheets and issued them in their own decorative bindings. Belford, Clarke & Co., hence this hybrid.
• Condition: please review photos and video included within this article for current condition.

Title Page (no copyright date):
     THE
     POEMS OF OSSIAN;
     TRANSLATED BY
     JAMES MACPHERSON, ESQ.
     TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED
     A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE AND DISSERTATION
     ON THE
     ERA AND POEMS OF OSSIAN.
     NEW YORK:
     JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY,
    14 AND 16 VESEY STREET.