8vo. iv, 36pp. Printed entirely in blue ink. With an engraved frontispiece depicting numerous caricatures of dancing gentlemen. Original publisher's light green wrappers. Rubbed, chipped, and damp-stained. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Purves Hume Campbell to verso of upper panel.

A rare survival, in original unsophisticated state, of the sole edition of a pseudonymous satire on fashion and dancing which lampoons the new mania for waltzes and quadrilles:

'No sooner had they given me the customary embrace, than they were all attacked with symptoms of lunacy: they twisted their bodies, sang, skipped about, and at last danced a measure to one of our Scottish airs...they twirled about one another till my head spun;- they grasped one another by the hands, waist and shoulders. Becoming alarmed at the horrid contortions of my relatives...I dispatched the servant for Dr. Ladyman Gilliflower, a dandy leech...On questioning the Dr Gilliflower as to the nature of the alarming disease, the effects of which had just fallen under my observation, he told me that it was termed by the faculty Waltzimania, and that it, together with another complaint denominated Quadrillimania, had become prevalent in many parts of Scotland, and was at that time raging as an epidemic in the metropolis.'

COPAC records copies at three locations (BL, Glasgow, and NLS); OCLC adds no further.