Language: English
Published by J. Dodsley, London, 1767
Seller: Compton Books, Guildford, United Kingdom
US$ 165.58
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Add to basketThree quarter leather binding, marvelled boards, small area of loss to spine, spine as label reading new Bath Guide. Contains frontis, 181p. Nice tight binding. The First Edition was published in 1766. 181 pp. Contains the Epilogue to the Second Edition. The book is a popular 18th-century satirical poem by Christopher Anstey, published first around 1766-1767, recounting the humorous adventures of the "Blunderhead" family in the fashionable spa town of Bath, England, through a series of poetical letters, satirizing Georgian society and its fads with witty observations on provincial life.