8vo. xiv, [2], 261pp, [1]. Bound by C. Lewis in contemporary gilt-tooled brown half-morocco, marbled boards, A.E.G. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers.

A collection of translations into Latin and Greek verse by several Cambridge men, together with poems composed by noted English authors, edited by Church of England clergyman and sometime lecturer at Caius, Henry Drury (1812-1863). The English selections include poems by, inter alia, Burns, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Byron, Marvell, Jonson, Cowper, and Milton.

The first edition was published in 1841, four subsequent editions appeared during Drury's lifetime.