12mo in 6s. 72pp. With engraved frontispiece and three further plates. Original publisher's roan-backed printed paper boards. Spine a little chipped with three small wormholes, a trifle rubbed to extremities, else a handsome copy. Slightly shaken, text block split at pp.24-5.

A rare juvenile tale, in the original publisher's binding, of two Abyssinian shepherd brothers, Adad and Maffdi, who are falsely accused of murder. Also included is the short 'Fate of presumption', by Jane Strickland

COPAC locates only two copies (BL and Oxford); OCLC adds Harvard, NYU and Princeton.