[Anstey, Christopher. 1724 - 1805] - The NEW BATH GUIDE: or Memoirs of the B - N - R - D Family. In a Series of Poetical Epistles

London: Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1776. 10th edition. Contemporary full brown calf w/ maroon spine label. Marbled eps. 175 pp, copperplate frontis, 8vo. VG (wear at extremities/joints starting/bpt of Edward Ricketts/stain [becomes progressively fainter ] to lower corner of first 3 leaves [2 blank]/upper rt corner missing on prelim blank leaf). Anstey's famous & popular work of verse, going through many editions in his lifetime. Described by Walpole as, "… a set of letters in verse, all kinds of verse, describing the life at Bath, and incidently everything else; but so much wit, so much humour, fun and poetry, so much originality, never met together before.".