8vo. [5], x-xxi, [1], 191pp, [1]. Contemporary calf, richly tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Heavily rubbed, upper joint split, paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, recent book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, scattered spotting. Label of the Barrett's Circulating Library, Simla, to FEP.

Little is known of the library at Simla with the exception of a brief record in Towelle's Hand Book and Guide to Simla and Interior (Simla, 1880, second edition) which states that in 1838, Barrett, the first European merchant to settle in Simla, 'instituted a library, a reading room, and a billiards room.'

Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.