Lays Of The Scottish Cavaliers: and other poems by Aytoun William Edmondstoune:

Donohue, Henneberry & Co. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No date stated.

Blackwood, 1886. Hardcover. Good. 1886. No Edition Remarks. 280 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt decoration. Pages are mildly tanned, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Previous owner's inscription to title page. Label and label remnants to front endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear, with minor corner bumping and minimal scuffing to edges. Spine is severely sunned, with noticeable crushing and slight splitting to ends. Gilt remains bright. Moderate rubbing and scuffing overall. Book has a slight forward lean.

James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. Hardcover. Very Good. . Small, red cloth boards with gilt lettering and black embellishments. Light shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, 1868. Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Attractively bound in 3/4 dark green morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt floral tooling within gilt-ruled compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (some rubbing).

George Routledge & Sons. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. the boards are shelf rubbed, slightly marked and the binding has been repaired. one small inscription. (PK). Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and marked. 1849. First Edition. Blue/gilt hardback cloth cover. 240mm x 190mm (9" x 7"). 351pp. Many b/w Illustrations. .

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and edge-wear. 1865. Reprint. Maroon hardback cloth cover with gilt decoration. 260mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). [viii], 268pp + ads. 69 b/w illustrations & vignettes. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1881. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 8". Sir Joseph Noel Paton; Walter H. Paton. An illustrated edition of this collection of Scottish Jacobite ballads, written by William Edmondstoune Aytoun. A collection of Scottish Jacobite poems that were first published in 1849. Many of the poems were modelled on the works of Thomas Babington Macaulay and Walter Scott.Aytoun's 'Lays' quickly came to be one of the most important texts to the romantic revival in mid-Victorian Scotland.Including numerous in-text illustrations by Sir Joseph Noel Paton and Walter H. Paton. William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) was a Scottish poet, lawyer, and professor of rhetoric at the University of Edinburgh. He specialised in poetry, satire, translation, prose fiction, and literary criticism. He was a lifelong contributor to the Edinburgh literary periodical Blackwoods Magazine.Including an ink inscription to the verso of the front free-endpaper, dated 1934. In the publisher's… Read More

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1872. 22nd Edition . Very Good Plus. 5 x 7 inches (12 x 17.5 cm). Blue cloth binding with bevelled board edges. Gilt and black decoration to front board and spine. Page edges untrimmed. Excellent solid binding. Rubbing to endpapers, a few spots of light foxing, otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5 x 7 inches (12 x 17.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. viii, 359, [1]