8vo. 152pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine lightly sunned. Near contemporary inked gift inscription to head of title page.

The sole edition of minor poet David Holt's (1828-1880) first published work, a collection of predominantly pastoral verse, the exception being the spirited six-stanza 'To the Anti-Slavery Association', a rousing panegyric praise of the societies abolitionist achievements.

'- Their's was a bloodless conflict! o'er the wave Floated the joyous shout – the exulting song, When they stretched forth the friendly hand to save, And from the tyrant's scourge to shield the tremb'ling slave!'