page_title: William Traill
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: William Traill / Works
caption_attribution_description: Image taken from: Title: "Lays of Modern Oxford, by Adon. Illustrated by M. E. Edwards, F. Lockwood, and the author" Contributors: EDWARDS, Mary Ellen. LOCKWOOD, Frank - Sir Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 11650.g.9." Page: 65. Place of Publishing: London. Date of Publishing: 1874. Publisher: Chapman &amp; Hall. Issuance: monographic. Identifier: 000021119 Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Download the PDF for this book (volume: 0) Image found on book scan 65 (NB not necessarily a page number) Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here.
context_page_description: William Frederick Traill was an English barrister and first-class cricketer.
context_section_description: Traill wrote verse, under the pseudonym "Adon". His works included:
  Lays of Modern Oxford (1874 and later editions), with illustrations by Mary Ellen Edwards
  Through Storm and Sunshine (1875)
  Drawing on undergraduate experiences, Traill wrote a volume of stories, Tales of Modern Oxford (1882). It features a Bullingdon Club dinner, and the ragging of a drunken college porter, made up blackface with burnt cork, and robed in academic dress.
caption: Illustration from page 65 of Lays of Modern Oxford
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