Published in Shrewsbury in 1773, this is the scarce First Edition of John Fletcher’s account of the landslip at Buildwas in Shropshire that blocked the River Severn for a number of days, when 18 acres of land slipped down the hillside at The Birches after heavy rains. Fletcher also mentions finding butterflies preserved in the rock that was uncovered by the slip ( actually the tails of Dalmanites trilobites which do have a butterfly like appearance,) these fossils were sent to the British Museum for study, which is possibly the earliest account of finding trilobite fossils in the county. The book is bound with its half title page. There is a second publication bound in, Horace in London published in 1813, bound in an old full leather binding