Quarto. [2], vi, 30pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, offsetting to title. Early manuscript note to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'Only Fifty Printed - no for Sale, July 1827'.

A contemporary account - edited from a manuscript in the possession of Sir Walter Scott by antiquary Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781-1851) - by Lady Margaret Cunningham (d. 1622?) of the brutal cruelty she suffered at the hands of her first husband Sir James Hamilton (d. in or after 1608), Master of Evandale.