8vo. Uncut in original publisher's buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Extremities worn, loss to spine. Pencilled ownership inscription of William St. Clair to FEP, scattered spotting.

A collection of parodies by poet and essayist Coventry Patmore's (1823-1896) father, likely intended as a prose version of Horace and James Smith's Rejected Addresses (London, 1812). Of particular interest are imitations of two of the author's close friends, Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt.

William St. Clair (1937-2021), British scholar and senior civil servant, notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys, The Biography of a Family (1989) and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (2004).