From poem: The arrow and the song / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Dedicated to: the Marchioness of Hastings.
First line of text: I shot an arrow into the air.
"The songs of the day" listing titles, composers and lyrics on back page.
At head of title: No.9.
Price 2/-
Full text available online at Internet Archive
Provenance: Ownership inscription in pencil on cover: Isabelle Throsby, Australian Ladies College, 16 June 1859. [Isabel Martha Osborne, nee Throsby, the daughter of Charles Throsby and Elizabeth Broughton Throsby, married Alick Osborne of Barrengarry, Kangaroo Valley, in 1861 and died at Hamilton [Tudor House], Moss Vale, on 13th June 1901.]
Initials in pencil on cover: MSM.