12mo. xiii, [1], 262pp. With a engraved frontispiece and an engraved title page. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, lightly marked, slight loss to head of dulled spine. Early inked ownership inscription and blind-stamp of bookseller G. Winterburn of Bolton to FFEP.

The first edition of Man, as a moral and accountable being, a volume by British journalist and naturalist Robert Mudie (1777-1842). The colour engraved frontispiece depicts the judgement of Brutus, aligning with the book's themes of moral evaluation and the universality of sin.