First edition. Small quarto. pp xiv, 120, [2]. Publishers' binding of full limp vellum. 300 copies were printed. The essays were originally published in the Cornhill Magazine. In his Preface the author asserts, ''I believe them to be the best, that is to say, the truest, rightest-worded, & most serviceable things I have ever written''.Signed on the one of the front blanks by the book's printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson.Fine.