8vo. viii, 136pp. With a list of subscribers. Contemporary green half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Heavily rubbed, spine sunned, corners bumped. Hinges exposed, scattered spotting.

The first edition of Henry Slight's Metrical History of Portsmouth. Slight, an amateur historian and member of the Portsmouth debating society Atheneum established by Lake Allen, would see the work described as 'offending both poetry, fiction, history and truth'.