8vo. vii, [1], 169pp, [3]. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, marked, and bumped. Contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, foxed.

A early edition, in original state, of Church of England clergyman and novelist Charles Kingsley's (1819-1875) highly ambitious narrative poem, unusually composed in quantitative hexameters.