First edition. With an engraved frontispiece and 6 other steel-engraved plates, each with a tissue guard. 8vo. Publisher’s gilt green cloth, a.e.g., slight wear to the head and tail of the spine. Foxed and browned. Bookplate to upper pastedown, auction description mounted to lower pastedown and former owner’s inscription to “To our sister Lucy A. Hayward” to ffep. 256pp. New York, G.P. Putnam & Son, 1869.
By the American poet and editor who made a visit to Malta, Egypt and Palestine in 1852-53.
