8vo. [2],ii,1-4,3-119,[1]. Pagination irregular, text apparently continuous. Several leaves misbound. With an engraved frontispiece and a further four engraved plates. Contemporary red calf-backed marbled paper boards. Rubbed, surface loss to spine. A majority of the anonymous peer titles completed in manuscript in an early hand.

A satire on British nobility, described in the language of heraldry; for example, the entry for George Walpole, third Earl of Orford (1730-1791), nephew of Horace Walpole, reads: 'Arms. Or, a park vert. / Supporters Two rein-deers gules. / Crest. The ace of spades proper. / Motto. I fly the haunts of men.' The entry for William Byron, fifth Baron Byron (1722-1798) is rather more barbed and no doubt a reference to his notorious duel in 1765 against William Charworth, whom he ran through with a sword: 'Arms. The children in the wood. / Supporters. The dexter, Famine; the sinister, Silence, proper. / Crest. A sword. / Motto Thou canst not say I did it.'

ESTC records copies at six locations in the British Isles (Birmingham, BL, Glasgow, Manchester, NLS, and Suffolk Record Office), and a further seven in North America (California, Harvard, Indiana, Kansas, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Texas, and Yale).