12mo. [4], 268pp. With a half-title. Finely bound in later gilt-tooled black half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate H. D. Colvill-Scott to FEP, later photographic illustration depicting the author pasted to verso of half-title.

The rare first book of verse by eminent mason and geologist, Hugh Miller (1802-1856) which secured the notice of, amongst others, Leigh Hunt. The book was printed and published anonymously in Inverness, by the owner of the Inverness Courant, and includes the six stanza 'Greece - an Ode, Written short after the surrender of the Acropolis'. By repute Miller was later to regret this publication, and actively attempted to buy up copies in order to destroy them.