Quarto. Limited edition of 400 copies, of which this is copy 37. viii, 91pp, [1]. With half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and two further engraved plates. Original publisher's? gilt-ruled navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities, light staining to lower board, and chipping to head and foot of spine. Bookplate of Peter Dennis Anthes to FEP. Marginal spotting to initial and terminal leaves.

The first edition, published in a limited run of 400 copies (of which this is No. 37), of a Victorian meteorological study into the great frosts of Great Britain, featuring pertinent discussion of the associated frost fairs held during the so-called 'Little Ice Age' which disturbed the North Atlantic climate between the 16th and 19th centuries.