12mo. [4], lv, [5], 233pp, [1]. With a terminal page of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. Heavily rubbed, without lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers, early armorial bookplate to verso of FFEP, near contemporary inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting.

A collection of translations from the Greek Anthology, compiled by poet John Herman Merivale (1814-1842) and the Reverend Robert Bland (1779-1825), described in the latter's obituary within The Literary Gazette as in 'possession of equivalent poetical language, and of musical verse, which often give them the air of originals'.