8vo. vi, [2], 135pp, [1]. With a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, wear to head of dulled spine. Small ink-stain to title, else internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, ink inscription to verso of FFEP: 'Rebecca Elizabeth Smith / with best love from W F S / August 16. 1864'.

The first edition of the only published collection of poetry by Torquay- based physician William Frank Smith (1836-1877). A second edition, with the addition of a lecture on the history of medicine and a biographical memoir by Dr. Pye Smith (presumably a relative), appeared in 1879.