8vo. vi, [2], 315pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed. Bookplate of John Wordie to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of FFEP: 'With A. J. Symington's Compliments'.

The sole edition of a travelogue incorporating a history of Iceland and the Faröe isles, appended by specimens of Icelandic poetry, Icelandic folk tales translated by philologist and sometime provost of Reykjavík cathedral Ólafur Pálsson (1814-1876), and 'information for intending tourists'.