Published by printed for T. Hookham, Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row, London, 1816
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
12mo, pp. [4], 217, [1], [2] ads; original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; some cracking along the joints, corners bumped, but generally very good and sound. On the front pastedown in ink: "Calgarth Park / 1818" and with a Calgarth Park bookplate. Calgarth Park was the home of Richard Watson (1737-1816) Bishop of Llandaff and a Whig politician. This second edition is published the same year as the first. "With this work Peacock found the true field for his literary gift in the satiric novel, interspersed with delightful lyrics, amorous, narrative, or convivial" (Wikipedia).