12mo. [2], 127pp, [1]. With half-title. Uncut and partially unopened in original publisher's drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities worn, surface loss to cracked spine, chipping to lettering-piece, upper board held by single cord only, lower joint split. Recent bookplate of the Bath Public Reference Library to FEP, occasional ink-stamps, half-title very nearly detached, later ink ownership inscription to head of title-page, lightly foxed.

A compilation of the satirical verse epistles of poet and playwright Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839). First printed pseudonymously as 'Q in the Corner' in the Bath Herald, the poems were initially collected for publication in book form in 1817, marking the beginning of Bayly's successful career as a lyric poet - with critics later lauding him as the Anacreon of English romance.