Description
The New Bath Guide; or, Memoirs of the B-R-D Family. In a Series of Poetical Epistles. The Eighth Edition. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, and Fletcher and Hodson, 1772, full leather binding, 175 pp, 7 x 4.5", 18mo. In poor condition. As is. Both front and rear boards are detached from binding. Boards are scuffed at edges & worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine lacking - binding exposed. Front end-page and frontispiece detached. Previous ownership signatures on front paste-down and title page. Toning, foxing, and age-staining throughout text-block. No known marginalia. Binding is broken. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Christopher Anstey (1724-1805) was an English poet who also wrote in Latin. After a period of managing his family's estates, he moved permanently to Bath and died after a long public life there. His poem, "The New Bath Guide" brought him to fame and began an easy satirical fashion that was influential throughout the second half of the 18th century. The broad 18th century humor of the Guide inevitably met with criticism in some quarters. While the parodies and allusions to Milton, Dryden, and the Classical authors were well received, the perversion of Methodist terminology in Prudence's account of her seduction at least caused controversy. He was the first to make tourism a poetic subject since the pilgrimage depicted by Thomas Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales. FORN-MSB-1023-0761-HK814
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