An Essay of the Art of Tormenting; with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Amusing Study

London: Printed for Andrew Millar; reprinted for William Miller by W. Bulmer and Co. Some minor spotting, generally clean and crisp. 12mo (6 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches). 229 pages, 2-pages ads. Engraved frontispiece by James Gillray of a cat tormenting a mouse. Contemporary mottled calf (front cover detached, rebacked). Third edition (first Bulmer). Provenance: 1804 gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper from Mrs. Legge to Harriet St. Leger(?). Considered to be perhaps the first extended non-fiction satire written by an English woman.