8vo. [4], 105pp, [3]. With a half-title and three final pages of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, joints split, corners bumped. Marbled endpapers, without front blank fly-leaf, early inked ownership inscription of Decimus Cooke to head of half-title, pen-trials to p.104, occasional spotting.

A revised edition of a poem in blank verse by Church of England clergyman James Hurdis (bap. 1763, d.1801) celebrating the Wealden landscape and his parish of Burwash, Sussex. First printed in 1788, the poem records and rejoices in the duties that come with ordination.