Quarto. [4], 89pp, [1]. A well-margined copy, with fore-edge untrimmed, in nineteenth-century half morocco, gilt, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. The leather is somewhat scuffed, spotting to text. With the armorial bookplate of the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire to FEP, and an A.L.S. from the author at Dropmore House, dated 4th May 1829, bound in facing the title, and manuscript corrections to the text to D2r, G4r&v, H2r, I1r, L2r, L4r&v, M1v and M3r.

A rare collection, privately printed and with a presentation note addressed to E.A. Barker, described within as 'a scholar', of poetic 'trifles' in neo-Latin, Greek and English, by William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759-1834). As the author, a Tory politician who presided over a short lived Ministry which nevertheless secured the Abolition of the Slave Trade, explains in his preface, the 'following trifles, written at very different periods of the Author's life...were attempted as translations, others as paraphrases only, or still more distant imitations of the poetry to which they refer: the very few original pieces are entirely occasional'.

By repute, the majority of the circa 50 copies of this work printed were retained in Grenville's family.