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Title	The lay of the last minstrel.
Description	Bevelled boards. Gilt edges. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. The binder's ticket is on the lower recto pastedown: '\| LEIGHTON \| SON & \| HODGE.\| SHOE LANE \| LONDON \|' Red morocco horizontal grain cloth. Both covers blocked identically in gold. A single gold fillet is blocked on the borders. A banner pole, spear tipped at each end, is blocked at the top of the cover, and supports drapery. Within the drapery, top left, a lion rampant is blocked; top right, a cross is blocked. Within niches of each side of the central recessed medieval arch panel, figures are blocked - to the left: a knight in armour, plus shield and axe; to the right an archer, with bow, arrow and sword. Each is supported by a plinth and is surrounded by tracery. On the tail, left and right, a coat of arms is blocked within circles formed by three fillets. The arms are: three cranes; two crescents and mallet within bend. Four coats of arms are blocked on the centre tail, within arcading of medieval decorated arches and columns. From the left the coats of arms, argent, are: 1. three stars in chief, crown and vase; 2.double-headed eagle displayed, augmentation saltire; 3. lion rampant; 4. six crosses crosslet fitched, shield (containing an 'S', possibly denoting Scott), and mullet in bend. With the recessed central panel, a gothic window with intersecting tracery is blocked. The title, '\|Lay \| of \| the \| Last \| Minstrel' blocked in gold in gothic letters between the window mullions. The spine is blocked in gold. A single gold fillet is blocked on the perimeter. From the head downwards, the decoration is: decorated gothic window at the head; the title: '\| Lay \| of \| the \| Last \| Minstrel \|' blocked in gold in gothic letters within the window; an arabesque panel formed by two gold fillets and surrounded by small decoration; within the arabesque the words: '\| Author's \| Edition \| Illustrated \|' are blocked in gold within a pennant curling downwards; double pointed thin gothic arches; within these, near the tail, a man is blocked, wearing knee breeches, stockings and wearing a tartan cloak, holding a harp on his left knee; a gold fillet; at the tail, '\| A. & C. Black Edinburgh \|' is blocked in gold within a rectangle formed by a single gold fillet.
Cover Designer	Leighton, John, 1822-1912
Author	Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
Publisher of Original	Adam and Charles Black
Place of Publication	Edinburgh, Scotland
Date Original	1854
Printer	R. and R. Clark
Binder	Leighton, Son, and Hodge
Illustrator	Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899 Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897
Measurements	137 x 210 x 37 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE No. 11
Material	Red Morocco grain Book cloth
Technique	Gilding Gold blocking Beveling
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--Scotland--19th Century--Specimens
Design element	Fillets (Bookbinding) Knights and knighthood Archers Draperies Devices (Heraldry) Stars Gothic scripts Arabesques Tracery Double-headed eagle (Emblem) Cranes (Birds) Crescents (Shapes) Lions Arches Crowns Saint Andrew's crosses Vases Pennants Minstrels Tartans Harp Windows Shields Axes Bows (Weapons) Swords Mallets Columns Crosses Men Plinths Arrows Mullions Decoration and ornament, Gothic
Coverage-Geographic	Scotland
Type	Still Image
Current repository	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries
Collection	Decorative Nineteenth Century Trade Bindings
Bibliographic record	http://info.library.mun.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?user_id=REMOTEWEB&searchdata1=ocm01903223{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	248.cpd