Ancient leaves or translations and paraphrases from poets of Greece and Rome

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1862. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [6], 175; engraved half-title bound as a frontispiece, errata slip tipped in at p. 1; neat and minor repair at hear and tail of spine, else very good in original green coarse diaper cloth, triple gilt borders on covers, gilt lettering on spine, a.e.g. Thompson was born at sea on his father's bark off Van iemen's Land. He taught at Edinburgh Academy where Robert Louis Stevenson was one of his students. These translations of classical renderings is his first book. (Inventory #: 23522)