1881 – LAYS OTHE SCOTTISH CAVALIERS AND OTHER POEMS By William Edmondstoune Aytoun Antiquarian Illustrated Hardback Poetry Book. 

This has numerous wood-engraved illustrations, headpieces, tailpieces, and vignettes throughout, engraved by Dalziel, Thompson, Thomas, W. J. Linton and others after Joseph Noel Paton and Waller H. Paton. It has all-edge gilt pages, green pastedowns and endpapers and the publisher’s original and stunning red and gilt cloth binding. 

Published by William Blackwood And Sons, Edinburgh and London, in 1881. The book was originally published in 1849 and the edition illustrated by Paton was first published in 1863. Joseph Noel Paton was a Sottish artist born in 1821.

The book is internally fine and externally very good except for the fading and water stain on the spine shown that extends about 5 mm onto the rear cover