William Blackwood & Sons|Edinburgh • & London 1870|18.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
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Lays of the Scottish cavaliers and other poems With illustrations by Joseph Noel and Waller H. Paton. Superb contemporary long-grained red morocco by Ramage, spine in six compartments with undulating gilt fillets, tridents and gilt friezes, gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, blue morocco listel frame to covers with floral friezes and gilt decorative motifs, gilt tridents to corners as well as gilt dots, the gilt arms of Scotland crowned to centre of upper cover, undulating gilt fillets to edges of covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dentelle frame to pastedowns, all edges gilt, two corners lightly bumped. A fine copy in a perfectly suited English full morocco binding with mosaic inlays.