8vo. xii, 282pp, [2]. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers bound in. Scattered spotting. Inked ownership inscription of George Meredith to upper wrapper.

Novelist and poet George Meredith's (1828-1909) copy of the first edition of German classical scholar Rudolf Westphal's (1826-1892) translation of the verse of Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic Catullus.