A poetical satire
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ANSLEY, CHRISTOPHER). The New Bath Guide: or Memoirs of the B-N-R-D Family. In a Series of Poetical Epistles... The fourteenth Edition. London (printed for J. Dodsley) 1791.
8:o. (5), vi-viii, (3), 4-175, (1 blank) pp. Engraved frontispiece.
Contemporary brown mottled calf, very slightly worn, gilt edges of covers, gilt spine.
Christopher Anstey (1724 - 1805), English writer and poet. Some visits to Bath resulted in his famous rhymed letters The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family. . . a satirical poem of considerable sparkle about the adventures of the Blunderhead family in Bath from which Tobias Smollett is said to have drawn largely in his The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.
