The Lyrical and Other Minor Poems

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. Very Good. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's dark violet gilt-and blind-stamped cloth, all edges gilt, yellow glazed endpapers; xcv,[2],200,[10]pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Cloth rather scuffed and rubbed at margins with exposure at corners, spine toned to tan, slightly later (1873) ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Very Good, sound example. List of subscribers bound in rear.

Posthumously published compilation of the works of one of the major-minor Victorian poets Robert Story, whose youthful dabbling as a gardener, shepherd, and farm-hand infused his poetry with "a certain rustic vigor of life" per Carlyle (see the DNB, Vol. XVIII, p. 1318).