8vo. vii, [1], 54pp. With half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled navy half-morocco, marbled boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, with surface loss to head and foot of spine. Heavy spotting to endpapers, occasional light spotting to text.

A later facsimile of the first edition of a satirical biography of 'Mother Wybourn', one of London's most notorious bawds, purportedly written by one 'Anodyne Tanner', a pseudonym intended to represent Francis Tanner, who advertised quack medicine under the sign of the Anodyne Necklace. Interestingly, the bookseller named in the imprint, one 'A. Moore', also never existed - alongside his similarly sketchy brother, 'J. Moore', it seems the two fictitious booksellers were employed most often as pseudonyms for printer Henry Woodfall (1686-1747) and bookseller Thomas Read. Together, the code-names appear on some 600 Grub Street publications between 1713 and 1759, potentially to disguise or obscure illicit, illegal or misleading material.