8vo. xvi, [4], 171pp, [5]. With two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary half-cloth, marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, marked, and sunned, spine heavily worn. Later bookplate of bibliophile and historian Eric S. Quayle (1921-2001) and recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, scattered spotting.

The first edition of Albion (and other poems) from Henry Sewell Stokes (1808-1895), Cornish poet and schoolfriend of Charles Dickens. Dedicated to the King, 'Albion, a poem commemorative of the Crisis', addresses the 1831 Reform Riots, provoked by the House of Lords' refusal to pass the second Reform Bill.