12mo. [2], ix, [1], 95pp, [1]. Original publisher's dark green cloth, recently expertly rebacked, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Rubbed and marked. Long horizontal tear, naively repaired, to leaf G1 (not touching text), Foxed.

A provincially published poetry collection, curiously appended by an essay championing the benefits of free trade; the only published work of Richard Herd, of whom little is known. In his prefatory remarks, Herd states that 'nearly the whole was composed whilst wandering upon the lofty fells of Howgill, in his occupation as shepherd'. The poems, without exception, are dire; the majority formed of ungainly rhyming couplets. Titles include 'On seeing Halley's Comet', 'On the Death of Lord Byron', and 'On the Slave Trade'. The latter is an impassioned polemic against servitude: 'Brave Britons abhor slavery, / Then why not Britain's sons agree / To Afric's sons their freedom give, / And let them all in freedom live.'

Unusually uncommon outside of North America. OCLC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, Oxford, and Roehampton). COPAC adds no further.