In two volumes. [3], vi-xvii, [3], 285, [1]; [4], 294pp. Without half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp.

The sole edition of hymn writer and poet James Montgomery's (1771-1854) collected prose; a diverse selection comprised of essays, devotional short stories, and journal extracts, including a narrative of juvenile delinquency in London, a brief life of a flower (told from the perspective of the plant), and a fictional account of a Christian missionary in Africa.