8vo. xvii, 565pp, [3]. With half-title, a photographic portrait frontispiece, an additional engraved title, and a terminal advertisement leaf. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Slightest of rubbing. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inscribed in ink to half-title; 'Marie E. Wrixon / from / George F. Armstrong / September, 1878'.

An association copy of the hagiographic biography of Irish poet Edmund John Armstrong (1841-1865), compiled by his brother George Francis Armstrong (1845-1906). In 1879 the latter Armstrong married Marie Elizabeth Wrixon to whom this copy was presented, presumably as a gift during courtship.

COPAC records copies at four locations (BL, NLS, Oxford, and Sussex).