8vo. xii, [5], 12-192pp. Rough-cut leaves. With two engraved plates bound at front. Contemporary calf over blue paper boards, lettering piece, gilt. Extremities somewhat rubbed, damp-staining to boards, corners bumped. Ink inscription to recto of FFEP, occasional marginal dust-soiling.

A rather obscure collection of domestic and pastoral verse, dedicated without permission to politician George Canning, by a little-known Liverpudlian actor and sailor. The most intriguing of the works, entitled 'The Liverpool Laureate', concerns the city environs and the local political situation of the day, set to the tune of 'Derry-Down'.

Rare, with COPAC recording only three copies (BL, Liverpool, Oxford). OCLC adds five more (Harvard, NYPL, Princeton, Western, and UC Davis).