8vo. 370pp. Without half-title. With an engraved frontispiece. Finely bound in blind-stamped, richly gilt-tooled contemporary calf. Gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed and marked, with slight surface wear to joints. Browning to initial leaves, occasional light spotting.

The second edition, finely bound, of Scottish writer Grace Kennedy's (1782-1825) most renowned novel; a controversial tale of a suffering Jesuit minister written from a Protestant viewpoint. First printed in 1823, the work reached a twelfth edition by 1858, and was translated into several European languages.