8vo. [4], 75pp, [1]. Modern calf-backed marbled boards, contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece to spine. Library stamp of the Mercantile Library, Philadelphia to title. Slight marginal loss to edge of terminal leaf, leaves browned, with slight chipping to edges, scattered staining and spotting.

'Madam, a humpy Lord; but a real right honourable, that can row in a boat and play cricket'.

A late comedy by Irish actor and dramatist John O'Keeffe (1747-1833), first performed 'with universal applause' at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Celebrated today for his much revived comedy, Wild Oats (1791), O'Keeffe's loss of sight in his thirties required that his later compositions be dictated aloud and transcribed.