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An Account of the Tournament at Eglinton Revised and Corrected by Several of the Knights; Illustrated by representations of the various scenes from sketches taken on the spot by Mr W. Gordon; with a biographical notice of the Eglinton family; to which is prefixed a sketch of chivalry and of the most remarkable Scottish tournaments by James Aikman Esq.
1839rif. 6997Edinburgh: Hugh Paton Carver and Gilder to Her Majesty the Queen 1839. FIRST EDITION large 4to pp. ii xii 20 lithograph frontispiece and 4 hand-coloured double-page lithograph plates. Original purple finely-textured cloth front board lettered in gilt. Some spotting. Boards somewhat marked a little bumped to edges cloth lightly rippled in places. An attractively-illustrated account of the Earl of Eglinton’s famous folly a tournament banquet and ball in best medieval style. It attracted a hundred thousand spectators and cost him tens of thousands of pounds partly due to inclement Scottish weather. ‘Although the tournament was ridiculed by some critics its enactment of chivalric metaphor is now seen to have inspired Victorian imagination in art and literature as well as public and private standards of behaviour’ ODNB. Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder to Her Majesty the Queen hardcover
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