The new Bath guide: or, Memoirs of the B-N-R-D family. In a series of poetical epistles ...

  • London: Printed by C. Whittingham ... for the Associate Booksellers, Vernor and Hood (etc.), 1800
By Anstey, Christopher.
London: Printed by C. Whittingham ... for the Associate Booksellers, Vernor and Hood (etc.), 1800. New edition. Very Good. 16cm; viii, 155 pages, and 5 engraved plates illustrating comic scenes from the text after Baynes. Bound in 1/4 calf over marbled boards, decorated in gilt on spine with interesting winged pelican motif. Joints tender. Occasional light foxing. Early owner's name in ink on front blank (Nathaniel Micklethwaite) and armorial bookplate.

Satirical letters in verse describing the adventures of the bumptious "Blunderhead Family" at Bath.

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Title

The new Bath guide: or, Memoirs of the B-N-R-D family. In a series of poetical epistles ...

Author

Anstey, Christopher.

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Printed by C. Whittingham ... for the Associate Booksellers, Vernor and Hood (etc.): London

Date

1800

Edition

New edition


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