[iv], 33 pp. (4to) 10¾x8, period quarter blue morocco, marbled boards, original front stiff yellow wrapper bound in. First Edition, Second Issue.

According to Penzer fewer than 200 copies of the entire first edition, comprising both the first issue and the dated second issue were printed. According to Messrs. Quaritch fewer than 100 copies were sold. Burton authored The Kasidah 27 years before he first ventured to print it. It is considered one of his most "honed and polished works and a skillful rendering of his philosophy." Penzer 98.