8vo. [2], 25pp. Original publisher's printed buff paper wrappers. Spotting and light damp-staining to extremities, loss to foot of spine. Inked manuscript annotation to foot of p.18, with no obstruction to text; otherwise, internally clean and crisp.

The first edition of English writer William Watkiss Lloyd 's (1813-1893) historical analysis of Pindar's (c.518-438 BC) Eighth Nemean Ode, an epinikion, or piece of victory poetry, celebrating a triumph of Deinias of Aegina, generally assumed to be in a footrace at the Nemean Games.