8vo. 351pp, [1]. Contemporary red half-morocco, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP, scattered foxing.

A handsomely bound copy of the first edition of a collection of poems by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865), sometime professor of rhetoric and belles lettres at the University of Edinburgh, and lifelong contributor to the Edinburgh literary periodical Blackwood's Magazine.