8vo. xiv, 281pp. With half-title; title page in red and black. Original publisher's gilt-stamped navy cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked, bumping to corners, light surface wear to extremities. Browning to initial leaves, very occasional light spotting and scuffing.

The first edition of Henley and Wyndham's collected works of English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840 – 1922), breeder of Arabian horses and husband to Lady Anne Blunt, daughter of Ada Lovelace and granddaughter of Lord Byron. Blunt, perhaps the strongest English advocate for Egyptian independence, and fierce opponent of colonial British forces, was described by academic Edward Said as notably lacking the 'final...traditional Western hostility to and fear of the Orient.'.