8vo. [4], xxxi, [1], 94pp, [2]. With a half-title, three engraved plates, and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary speckled calf, morocco lettering-piece, gilt. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, booklabel of John Hely-Hutchinson of Chippenham Lodge, Ely to verso of FFEP, slight loss to lower corner of half-title, plates foxed.

A late eighteenth-century edition of poet Matthew Green's (1696-1737) most well-known work, a light-hearted poem in octosyllabic couplets recommending the pleasures of rural life as a remedy to melancholy, first published posthumously in 1737.