The Legend of Iona, with other poems

Walter PATERSON

Published by Edinburgh: printed by George Ramsay and Company, 1814

About this Item

Original boards, printed label on spine ("LEGEND OF IONA. Price 12s."); uncut and partly unopened. Corners a little bumped, some wear at head and tail of spine, lettering-label very slightly chipped. "'O! blest shall be the holy friar / Of fair Iona's hallowed Isle, / Who sung the requiem of my sire, / And cursed the foe that wrought him guile . . .'" Walter Paterson (1789-1849) was a sometime Professor of English at Jena, in Germany, and minister of Kirkurd, in Peeblesshire. A grandson of the stone-engraver Robert Paterson, the original of "Old Mortality", he acknowledges his debt to Walter Scott - "as it was through his friendship that I obtained access to these distinguished advantages [the useful advice of Mrs Maclean Clephane of Torloisk]; and from him that I derived courage to persevere in an undertaking, on the presumption of which I had often reflected with terror and distrust". The title poem found an admirer in Christopher North. Seller Inventory # S100316

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Legend of Iona, with other poems

Publisher: Edinburgh: printed by George Ramsay and Company

Publication Date: 1814

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition