First edition. Octavo. Original publisher's dark green blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Title page in red and black. With half-title, several engraved in-text illustrations, a hand-coloured engraved facsimile frontispiece and one further hand-coloured facsimile plate.
 
A very good copy. Lightly rubbed and marked, with bumping to head and foot of spine. Browning to half-title, occasional light spotting.
 
The sole edition of a history of 'Battel Abbey', the now partially ruined Benedictine abbey located in Battle, East Sussex, England, compiled by historian and teacher Mark Antony Lower (1813-1876), founder of the Sussex Archaeological Society.