Bath Characters: or, Sketches from Life. [WARNER (Rev. Richard)].

By Peter Pallet. Second Edition, with many Additions. Amongst which are a Poetical Pump-Room Conversation; a New Preface; and an Appendix, Containing a Defence of the Work, and a Castigation of its Persecutors.

8vo. [203 x 133 x 10 mm]. xxiv, 132 pp. Original binding of blue paper covered boards, with a large printed pink paper label on the front, rebacked with cream paper, plain endleaves, uncut edges.
London: printed [by T. Davison] for G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1808

An amusing satire on fashionable life in Bath by the Rector of Claverton, first published in 1807. This is a very good copy, uncut, in boards, with the printed label, priced at 5s. It also has a loosely inserted folded leaf, with the real names of 35 of the featured characters in manuscript, with a postscript: "this was all that I really can find out, but will do my best to find the rest".

Stock no. ebc7568