8vo. In two volumes. xliv, 289, [1]; [2], 291pp, [1]. Titles printed in red and black. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed. Internally clean and crisp.

Selected 'specimens of the lighter workmanship' of Karl Erdmann Edler (1844-1931), Austrian poet and novelist, translated by viceroy of India and poet Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). Frequently publishing his own verse under the name 'Owen Meredith', Lytton describes Edler's genius as 'psychological and dramatic'.