8vo. vii, [1], 167pp, [3]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, marked, spine dulled. Ticket of booksellers Henderson & Perry of Birmingham to FEP, very occasional light spotting.

The first edition of Andromeda, a collection of poetry by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), broad church priest, social reformer, and university professor. Most well known for The Water Babies (1863), Kingsley was appointed chaplain to Queen Victoria in 1859.