8vo. iii, [1], 276pp, [2]. With a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, a hand-coloured engraved title page, and 29 hand-coloured engraved plates from etchings by Thomas Rowlandson. Contemporary dark green half-morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, later ticket of George's of Bristol to FEP, early inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, offsetting, very occasional light spotting.

The fifth edition of this illustrated satire by William Combe (1742-1823), British miscellaneous writer. Serialised from 1809 to 1811 in Ackermann's The Poetical Magazine, Combe's descriptive and moralizing verse satirised William Gilpin, who toured Britain to describe his theory of the Picturesque .It. was collected in book form in 1812, and was followed by two similar Tours, "...in search of Consolation" (1819) and "...in search of a Wife,".