12mo in 6s. [4], xii, 32, 4pp. With an (apparently additional) lithograph view of Worthing (on india paper, and mounted), preceding the title, a half-title, and two terminal leaves of advertisement for 'publishing a south-east bird's-eye view of the town of Worthing'. Contemporary marbled boards, neatly rebacked in gilt-tooled red morocco. Worn to corners, edges, rubbing to surfaces. Some spotting internally, occasional marginal loss, with old tape repairs and a recent book-label to FEP, late nineteenth-century ownership inscription to FFEP.

An uncommon Clerkenwell-printed Regency versified paean to the virtues of the 'sea-bathing’ town of Worthing, prefaced by an introduction which also notes that the town – sea-aside - has ‘her Libraries, and her Reading Rooms, for the intellectual pastime of the Visitors’, and such civic institutions as ‘Benevolent Institutions, and her chools of Charity’. It appears to have been the work of John Tidey - a teacher and amateur arist, and the father of Royal Academician Henry Tider – and produced largely to promote the former’s engraving of the town, which the lithograph which appears to have been added to this copy reproduces in a smaller form.

OCLC locates just three copies worldwide, at BL, Davis and Stanford; COPAC adds three further, at Liverpool, Oxford and Strathclyde.