12mo. [3], 6-38pp. Complete despite erratic pagination. With an engraved hand-coloured frontispiece 'Dr. Monsey's singular method of drawing of teeth'. Uncut. Modern marbled paper boards. Original publisher's printed powder-blue sugar wrappers bound in. Rubbed, spine worn. Bookplate of Charles Todd Owen and book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, wrappers marked and torn.

A remarkably rare survival of the sole edition of a compendium of comical anecdotes, which despite the declaration of the title seldom relate to Scotland.

The exceptions to the dearth of Caledonian content, are two succinct witticisms relating to Dr. Johnson's Scottish sojourn, and a humorous passage recounting an encounter between Samuel Foote and a 'Scotch sailor' concerning the construction of a compass:

A sheet of writing paper being produced, the Scotchman very deliberately put his thum and finger into the collar of his shirt, drew fourth a louse, and placed it gently on the paper. "Now ken ye well, captain said he, and observe ye, that a Scotch louse always travels southward; so that if ye mind the course of this louse upon the paper, ye may easily find whereabouts the north is, and make our compass accordingly."

COPAC records copies at just two locations (BL and Oxford); OCLC adds one further (San Francisco).