8vo. 76pp. With engraved half-title and a photographic landscape frontispiece. Original publisher's printed two-tone paper boards, title printed to spine, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed, with chipping to edges, spine heavily dulled. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Harold Addleshaw, March 30th, 1890 to FFEP. Endpapers browned, spotting to edges.

The first edition of the collected poems of Sir William Watson (1858-1935), English traditionalist poet and once-candidate for the role of Poet Laureate. 'Wordsworth's Grave', an elegy for the great Romantic poet, would establish his reputation after publication in 1890.