Quarto. lxxxviii, 254, [2], 16, [2]pp. With an engraved frontispiece, engraved hand-coloured historiated initial to preface, and eight terminal leaves of addenda. Contemporary burgundy paper boards, contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked, cracking to foot of spine and splitting to head, upper joint starting. Manuscript shelf-marks and pasted binder's ticket of J. McLaren of Glasgow to FEP. Spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean and crisp.

The first edition of some collected Scottish proverbs compiled by Scottish portrait-painter Andrew Henderson (1783-1835), with his own etchings featured as the frontispiece and in the preface. Henderson, described as 'a man of extremely original character' by Lionel Henry Cust, would later make significant contributions to The Laird of Logan; Anecdotes and Tales illustrative of the Wit and Humour of Scotland (1885), alongside friends William Motherwell (1797-1835) and John Donald Carrick. Motherwell, responsible for the preface in this volume, is best known as one of Scotland's most active - and conflicted - Orangemen.