8vo. 24pp. Recent half-calf, brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Very light rubbing to extremities. Slight paper flaw to title page affecting last line of imprint, else internally clean and crisp.

First printed in the late eighteenth-century, and reissued, under various imprints, until the early twentieth-century, this popular series of 35 rules by which to live life are commonly attributed to politician Sir John Barnard (c.1685-1764), and are appended by advice for masters on the payment of stamp duties and on the benefits of enrolling apprentices.