8vo. xxxi, [1], 232pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's olive green cloth, ruled in black, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Hinges partially exposed.

The first edition in English of select verse by Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804-1877), translated from the Swedish (the language in which Runeberg opted to write) by English orientalist and explorer Edward Henry Palmer (1840-1882) and Eirikr Magnusson (1833-1913), librarian and Icelandic scholar at the University of Cambridge, who notably taught Old Norse to William Morris (1834-1896).