Quarto. [2], vii, [1], xxxvi pp, [2]. Title in red and black. With an engraved vignette to title page. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting.

A contemporary account - edited from a manuscript in the possession of Sir Walter Scott by antiquary Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781-1851) - of Jean Livingston (1579-1600), a Scottish woman convicted of the murder of her allegedly abusive husband John Kincaid of Warriston.

The murder was committed by Livingston's lover Robert Weir, a servant, who strangled the influential Dunedian. Livingston was executed by guillotine at Edinburgh castle having been roused from a state of indifference regarding her fate to one of religious fervour.