Is this one of the first examples of an attempt at creating a facsimile?

This is The Goldyn Targe, part of a collection of medieval poems reprinted by academic David Laing in 1826-7. He had new lead type created to match the type of early Scottish printers and re-created their printing woodcuts, and designed the book to feel the same as its medieval original. It was not a facsimile, but bore a close resemblance to the original printed book.

Unfortunately all but 76 copies were destroyed by a fire at the printing works, and many surviving copies are incomplete or fire damaged. Presumably the lead type was also destroyed, as no other books in this particular style were printed again by Laing.

Before the days of photographic reproduction, the only way to create near-facsimilies of early printed books was by painstakingly re-creating the type, illustrations, etc. In the decades after Laing this was used very successfully by William Pickering to create reprints of early books, and less successfully by Lionel Booth, who went bankrupt because of it.

Unusually, the grain of the paper goes in the wrong direction in this copy.