Quarto. [4], 27pp, [1]. With a half-title and a terminal page of publisher's advertisements. Modern calf-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Early inked ownership inscription to head of half-title, foxed.

The first edition of a series of barbed poetic letters addressed to the author of The New Bath Guide, writer and poet Christopher Anstey (1724-1805), whose popular volume of epistolary verse centred on a fictional bumbling family aptly named the 'Blunderheads'.