The new bath guide: or, memoirs of the b-n-r-d family. In a series of poetical epistles.
London.
Printed by N. Biggs, 1804.
New edition.
viii, 155pp, [1]. With 10 engraved plates.
[Bound with:] COTTON, Charles. Scarronides, or virgil travestie, a mock poem, on the first and fourth books of virgil's aeneis, in english burlesque. London. Printed by J. Galton, 1804. [2], 122pp. With an engraved frontispiece, one further engraved plate, and two engraved illustrations in the text.
8vo. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled mottled calf, marbled endpapers. Rubbed. Marbled endpapers, head of title page of first mentioned work shaved, scattered spotting.
[Bound with:] COTTON, Charles. Scarronides, or virgil travestie, a mock poem, on the first and fourth books of virgil's aeneis, in english burlesque. London. Printed by J. Galton, 1804. [2], 122pp. With an engraved frontispiece, one further engraved plate, and two engraved illustrations in the text.
8vo. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled mottled calf, marbled endpapers. Rubbed. Marbled endpapers, head of title page of first mentioned work shaved, scattered spotting.
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'.
An early nineteenth century edition of Charles Cotton's (1630-1687) perennially popular scatological burlesque of Virgil, of which book one first appeared in 1664 and book four the following year. Samuel Pepys, collecting a copy of book one on the very day it was licensed, found it 'extraordinary good'.
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An early nineteenth century edition of Charles Cotton's (1630-1687) perennially popular scatological burlesque of Virgil, of which book one first appeared in 1664 and book four the following year. Samuel Pepys, collecting a copy of book one on the very day it was licensed, found it 'extraordinary good'.
