8vo. xv, [1], 173pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed and marked. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Thomas Adam and recent ticket of W. J. Jaggard booksellers of Liverpool to FEP, recent label of Nottingham Public Libraries to FFEP.

The first edition of Yorkshire poet William Dearden's (b.1804) first published work, a long-form poem in five cantos based upon the Calder Valley folktale of an astrologer's quest for the woman with whom he shares a natal planet - the so-called 'Comet of Caldene'.