8vo. [6], 637 [i.e. 638]pp, [4]. Printed in double columns. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, green embossed cloth boards.Extremities rubbed and a trifle marked. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP, frontispiece dampstained, occasional marginal loss, lower corner of one leaf torn away but present, very occasional ink-stains.

A mid-nineteenth century Sicilian edition of select works by Palermitani poet Giovanni Meli (1740-1815), notably including his first published piece 'La Buccolica'; a long poem inspired by Don Quixote, 'Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza'; and 'Odi', an ode in honour of Nelson which Meli purportedly attempted to suppress following the execution of Neapolitan natives on the order of the English officer.

Thomas Gaisford (1789-1855), English classical scholar, sometime Curator of the Bodleian Library, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, and Dean of Christ Church.