12mo. In three volumes. ii, 305, [1]; [4], 323, [1]; [4], 318, 2pp. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements to Vol. III. Without Vol. I half-title. Contemporary green cloth, brown morocco lettering-pieces.Rubbed and marked, spines dulled, lower joint of Vol. I split, with backstrip separating. Armorial bookplates of Fitzherbert of Swynnerton Park to all FEPs, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to verso of FFEP of Vol. I, scattered spotting.

A collection of short stories centred around the exploits of Englishmen in Italy by politician Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquess of Normanby (1797-1863). Phipps, a writer of silver fork novels, would gain a reputation for his political pamphlets and speeches.