8vo. [4], viii, [2], 336pp, [2]. Without half-title: 'Mural nights. Vol.1'. With a terminal advertisement leave: 'Ready for the press, the second volume of Mural nights, containing elements of political knowledge, and a method of studying the ancient classics.' - In fact the second volume was never published. Contemporary sheep, ruled and lettered in gilt. Heavily rubbed, joints starting. Endpapers browned, scattered spotting.

A rare survival of the first edition of political writer Henry Redhead Yorke's (1772- 1813) provincially published treatise on the education of children in the virtues of the British state. A former revolutionary, Yorke claimed to have contributed to the revolutions in France, Holland and America, and threatened to propagate a further revolution in England. Promptly arrested for sedition, his beliefs would be altered utterly during his incarceration. This book is one result of his epiphany that children ought to be educated children in all the merits of the British constitution.

ESTC records a single copy in the British Isles (BL), and a further three copies in North America (LCP, LoC, and Newberry).