8vo. 239pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's purple cloth-backed purple paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed and sunned. Pencilled ownership inscription to half-title, else internally clean and crisp.

The first edition of the first book to be published under the imprint that would become the Fortune Press; a bitter condemnation of the character of the Scottish people, the final published work of Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1865-1924).