£150
12mo, pp. xxxii, 290, [2] + frontispiece and engraved title-page. Original textured purple cloth, front board blocked centrally in gilt with equestrian device, spine divided by triple blind rules and lettered direct in gilt. Plates spotted. Somewhat marked, cloth a little bubbled, worn to extremities, edges a little bumped. Inscription to flyleaf: ‘Presented to Georgiana Scullern[?] by Mr Hunter, 1840’.
An odd work from Peterhead folklorist and printer Peter Buchan (1790-1854), opening with an account of the Eglinton Tournament, the grand Romantic medieval-style revel and jousting tournament held over three days in August 1839 by Archibald, Earl of Eglinton. This is quickly followed by a wide-ranging discursive essay on 'the duty and character of a Gentleman in as few words or pages as possible' (p. xxiii). This essay opens with material on nobility, chivalry, and knighthood, while later sections find room for disquisitions on preachers, poets, soldiers and sailors, and a few pages on Beau Brummell.
