1872 The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece and five photographic plates. Collated complete. Set in the Scottish Borders in the mid-16th century, this narrative poem is written in six cantos as if being sung by a minstrel late in the 1600s with antiquarian notes. The poem follows an aging minstrel who seeks hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells his hostess and her ladies a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. Written by Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Illustrated by William Russell Sedgefield, a British photographer. Publisher's advertisements to the rear.