Lays of the Scottish cavaliers : and other poems / by William Edmondstoune Aytoun ; with illustrations by Joseph Noel Paton and Waller H. Paton

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

RA Collection: Book

Record number

15/4749

Author

Imprint

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, MDCCCLXV

Physical Description

[10], 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

General Note

Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. Edinburgh after Flodden -- The execution of Montrose -- The heart of the Bruce -- The burial-march of Dundee -- The widow of Glencoe -- The island of the Scots -- Charles Edward at Versailles -- The old Scottish cavalier -- Miscellaneous poems. Blind old Milton -- Hermotimus -- Oenone -- The buried flower -- The old camp -- Danube and the Euxine -- The Scheik of Sinai -- Epitaph of Constantine Kanaris -- The refusal of Charon -- Appendix: Examination of the statements in Mr. Macaulay’s history of England, regarding John Grahame of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee

Binding Note

Bound in red leather with gilt-stamped illustrations to covers and titled in gilt on spine: Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers by W.E. Aytoun. Illustrated by Noel Paton. Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh and London

Subject

Illustrated books
19th-century poems
Wood-engravings

Contributors

Sir Joseph Noel Paton, illustrator
Waller Hugh Paton, illustrator
William Luson Thomas, wood-engraver
John Thompson, wood-engraver
William James Linton, wood-engraver
Edmund Evans, wood-engraver
Edward Whymper, wood-engraver
James Davis Cooper, wood-engraver
W. T. Green, wood-engraver
Blackwood and Sons (Edinburgh), publisher
Dalziel Brothers (London)