8vo. Pp. 435. Vellum backstrip with titles stamped in gilt, art paper covered boards, brown endpapers, leaves of laid paper. First preliminary signed in ink by the author's literary executrix Dorothea Donn-Byrne under printed declaration ""This large paper edition is limited to 500 copies of which 495 are for sale."" Binding tight, leaves crisp and uncut/unopened. Irishman Byrne's final novel, a love story featuring an epic battle between Napoleon and Castlereagh.