12mo. [2], 159pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further four engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed, upper joint split. Marbled endpapers, later inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to recto of front blank fly-leaf, offsetting to title, short tear to head of final leaf.

An early nineteenth century edition of English poet and physician, Mark Akenside's (1721-1770) philosophical didactic poem (first published in 1744); to which is prefixed Anna Laetitia Barbauld's (1743-1825) critical essay on the poem, that first appeared in the edition of 1794.

John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), nephew of the Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, judge, and sometime editor of the Quarterly Review.