8vo. 8, [10], 90pp, [4]. With an initial publisher's catalogue and a final leaf of advertisements. Unopened in original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Very occasional spotting.

The first edition of dramatist, poet, and Colonial Office official Henry Taylor's (1800-1886) second published collection of verse; the titular poem of which being a romance set against the backdrop of the imminent Norman invasion.