8vo. [2], 221, [3], 32pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's olive green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, marked, and dulled. Later bookplate to FEP of journalist and magazine editor Clement Shorter (1857-1926).

The first edition of minor Victorian poet, social reformer, and Egyptologist Gerald Massey's (1828-1907) blank verse epic that 'may be read as a continuous Poem, or divided into separate Poems'. The book is dedicated to art historian and book collector Sir William Stirling-Maxwell (1818-1878), tenant of Craigcrook Castle, who, in 1855, had offered the use of the grounds to Massey, then in Scotland's capital as an editor at the Edinburgh News.