Small quarto. 62pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece. Partially unopened in original publisher's light green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, heavily sunned. Inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP.

The second edition of 'Petra' by John William Burgon (1813-1888), eventual Dean of Chichester Cathedral. Various passages within depicting the city of Petra, Jordan, have oft been reprinted, despite Burgon never seeing the city himself. For this poem, Burgon received the Newdigate Prize, for poems by students at Oxford University, in 1845.