8vo. xvi, 124pp. With a half-title and two folding charts. Title page in red and black. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-vellum, burgundy cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, contemporary inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to verso of front blank fly-leaf.

The sole edition of sometime governor-in-chief of British North America and scholar Sir Edmund Head's (1805-1868) translation into English of the thirteenth-century Icelandic saga recounting the rise and fall of of Glúmr Eyjólfsson.

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