12mo. 148pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Uncut in original publisher’s printed buff paper boards. Extremities worn and marked, later naive clear adhesive repairs to joints and spine. Hinges exposed, frontispiece and title page browned, publication dates scratched away from both, occasional chipping to margins, scattered spotting.

A rare survival of the sole edition of a juvenile geography primer composed entirely in verse. Unsurprisingly, given the constraints of the metrical form, very little in the way of useful geographic information is provided; with each entry (vaguely covering the continents of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas) rapidly descending into a list of primary waterways and notable mountain ranges in a select few countries. A series of lengthy prose notes are provided, though these are in the main seemingly anecdotal and rarely connected with the intended subject of the book. The main body of the text (prior to an appendix of 'useful information') concludes with a prose paragraph headed 'terrae incognitae' that succinctly provides the reader with an overview of hitherto unexplored lands in North and South America, including Guiana, Patagonia, ‘Amazonia’, and ‘that extensive reach of country westward of the British possessions in Canada.

OCLC records copies at three locations (BL, Cambridge, Columbia); COPAC adds no further.