8vo. x, [2], 133pp, [1]. With an albumen portrait frontispiece and two further albumen plates of Inverurie by photographer R. Brown. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, spine dulled. Inked inscription to half-title: 'To Jane Ramsay Walker In memory of one who felt much indebted to her kindness. April 17th, 1875'. Manuscript inscription pasted to foot of frontispiece: 'Yr. affect. CLB'. Manuscript note, in the same hand, tipped-in to verso of divisional title page: 'After the note on the opposite page had been printed in the understanding that the Binder was to prefix the photographs to Part Second, he seems to have discovered that they must face the verses of which they are meant to be in illustration, and that one of them must be turned upside down! In some copies we have sought to mend matters as regards the first little mistake by clearing the words "prefixed to Part Second" - at the risk however of marring in a degree the beauty of the printer's work'.

The sole edition, posthumously privately printed, of the collected poems of Christina Leslie Burnett (1818-1866).

The author was the daughter of John Burnett, Laird of Kemnay Aberdeenshire, who appears to have been an invalid most of her life. The book was published by her sister, Mary Erskine Burnett, after her death, using manuscript instructions left to her. The poems, predominantly sentimental in nature, were composed 'chiefly in sleepless nights'. Translations of four Germans poems entitled Grabes Blumen are appended, recorded as Burnett's 'last effort when life was near its close'. The manuscript notes in this copy indicate presentation by Mary to a close friend of Christina's.

OCLC records copies at just three locations (Aberdeen, NLS, and Yale); COPAC adds no further.