8vo. viii, 72pp. With a half-title. Uncut and partially unopened in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed and marked, wear to head and foot of dulled spine, corners bumped and exposed. Endpapers browned, scattered spotting.

The sole edition, provincially printed for private circulation, of the first appearance in book form of verse by Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846-1920), literary scholar and poet, grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

The dedicatory poem with which the volume commences is addressed to Ernest's father, writer and educationist Derwent Coleridge (1800-1883), and concludes with the self-deprecating stanza:

'Mine is a pale and imitative age,
No purple robe for me -
Thy name, and this poor verse my heritage, Which here I dedicate to thee'.