8vo. [2], 429pp., [2]. With a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's half-calf with gilt-tooled morocco lettering piece. Rubbed, with wear to corners and edges. Marbled endpapers and edges. Pencilled inscription to FFEP: 'M Rolleston, 1908'. Inked presentation inscription to page [iii]: 'To William Grahame Brooke. from his loving father R. S. Brooke. Wyton. Christmas 1870'.

A Brooke family copy of The Story of Parson Annaly, a novel following the titular Parson Annaly to Wales and elsewhere. Penned by Richard S. Brooke (1802-1882), Irish clergyman and father to Stopford Brooke. First gifted to the author's other son William in 1870, it later came into the hands of his granddaughter Maud, then married to Irish author T. W. Rolleston.