8vo. [3], vi-xix, [1], 160pp, [8]. With four final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Without half-title. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, gilt. Extremities rubbed.

The first edition in book form of novelist and socialite Lady Sydney Morgan's (bap. 1783, d. 1859) essay on Irish expatriates and the reasons behind their emigration from the homeland, originally published in the New Monthly Magazine.