The Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers

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 original red cloth binding. Externally, sound, with some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Fading to the spine and light fading to the extremities. Previous owner's ink inscription to the verso of the front free-endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. A few spots to the first and last few pages, otherwise pages are bright and clean. Very Good