The New Bath Guide. [ANSTEY (Christopher)].

The New Bath Guide: Or, Memoirs of the B-R-D Family. In a Series of Poetical Epistles.

Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece.

Fourth edition. 8vo. [186 x 120 x 20 mm]. 181pp. Bound in contemporary stained calf, the boards tooled in gilt with a double fillet border, the spine divided into six panels by tooled raised bands, the second panel with a red morocco label lettered in gilt, the others ornately tooled in gilt, the edges of the boards tooled in gilt, plain endpapers. (Hinges cracked but holding, boards slightly worn).

London: Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1767

Bookplate with the monogram 'JM' surmounted with a crest of a griffin's head pierced by an arrow. Small neat ownership signature to the front fly leaf dated 'Sept 1911'. Text block clean, a very good copy indeed.

Originally printed in 1766, Christopher Anstey's (1724-1805) popular satirical work received much praise on it's publication, with the likes of Horace Walpole declaring that it described life in Bath with "so much wit, so much humour, fun and poetry, so much originality, [as] never met together before" (ODNB).

Stock no. ebc9347