8vo. In three volumes. [2], 299, [1]; [2], 292; [2], 286pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled red calf, marbled paper boards. Rubbed, spines dulled. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP of Vol. I, scattered spotting.

The second edition, printed in the year after the first, of Caroline Lucy Scott, Lady Scott's (1784-1857) triple-decker society novel that touches on aspects of colonialism and race. The Quarterly Review (Vol. 50, 429) thought it 'the best feminine novel...that has appeared since Miss Edgeworth's Vivian'.