12mo. 294pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary green half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, spotted.

The first edition of Irish author Selina Bunbury's (1802-1882) martial novel centred on an Army veteran recollecting his experiences during the Peninsular campaign following the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars after 'he who had been the world's wonder and the nation's dread, was left to vent the impetuous breathings of his ambitious soul, a lonely exile on St. Helen's barren rock'. A second edition appeared in 1839.

OCLC and COPAC together record copies at just two locations (BL and St. Andrews).