8vo. xiii, 230pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone blue paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Worn and marked, with substantial loss to spine and lettering-piece, boards detached.Ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to FFEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'J.T. Coleridge ESq., with the author's best regards'.

A presentation copy of the first published work of English critic, journalist, poet and acquaintance of the Romantic circle John Abraham Heraud (1799-1887). The Chambers Cyclopedia of English Literature, perhaps rather too flatteringly, suggested that Heraud was to contemporary epic poetry what John Martin was to epic art: 'a worshipper of the vast, the remote, and the terrible'.