8vo. [4], iv, 173pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Without half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum, contrasting red Morocco lettering-piece. Extremities marked and discoloured. Armorial bookplate of J. G. Spurgeon to recto of FFEP, scattered foxing.

English poet Christopher Anstey's (1724-1805) popular satirical work, composed at Trumpington and first printed in 1766 at Cambridge. Horace Walpole praised the epistles, attributed to the fictional Blunderhead family, remarking that they described Bath with 'so much wit, so much humour, fun, and poetry, so much originality, [as] never met together before'.

John Grove Spurgeon (1746/7-1829), British amateur etcher and printmaker, sometime Rector of Clopton and Oulton and magistrate.