8vo. [4], viii, [8], 308pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary red half-calf, marbled boards, tooled and lettered in gilt to spine, marbled edges. Rubbed and dulled. Later booksellers typed catalogue description and remnants of bookplate to FEP, scattered spotting.

The first edition of writer and translator Richard Graves's (1715-1804) first published collection of poetry. In addition to those poems that had previously appeared in various journals and anthologies, the book includes two poetical essays, The Love of Order and The Progress of Gallantry, originally published in 1773 and 1774 respectively.