8vo. vi, [1], 112pp, [4]. With 2 leaves of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original publisher's gilt-tooled green cloth. Slightly rubbed, bumping to corners. Author's ink inscription to Margaret Bell Merrill on FEP dated Christmas 1909. William St. Clair's copy, with his pencilled ownership inscription.

This first edition of a collection of verse by American attorney and jurist Wendell Phillips Stafford (1861-1953) features an inscription from the author 'In sign of friendship' to one Margaret Bell Merill. A collection inspired by classical Greek influence- hence 'Dorian'- we can nonetheless see strong influences of pastoral tradition in the verse.

William St. Clair (1937-2021), British scholar and senior civil servant, notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys, The Biography of a Family (1989) and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (2004).