8vo. xix, [1], 286pp, [2]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Partially unopened in original publisher's purple cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, marked, and heavily sunned. Early inked ownership inscription to head of title page, very occasional light spotting.

The first English edition of these collected writings by Felice Orsini (1819-1858), Italian revolutionary and leader of the Carbonari who tried to assassinate Emperor Napoleon III. Renowned and admired in England for his daring tales of escaping prison in Mantua, a mere year after this work's publication Orsini would be sent to the guillotine.