internally super clean and bright with owner's inked name and date 1955 to first front endpaper
although no earlier copy is sited in UK institutional libraries (see JISC)
who inherited family property which enabled a comfortable lifestyle with a townhouse in London and a small property with a large garden in Surrey
Light foxing to final leaves
My Pocket Book; or, Hints for "A Ryghte Merrie and Conceitede" Tour, in quarto; to be called "The Stranger in Ireland" in 1805. By a Knight Errant trains internally super clean and brightLondon: printed for Ventnor, Hood, and Sharp (et al), 1808. A new edition. 8vo (18 x 12 cms); pp xxxii, 228; folding aquatint frontispiece and four plates, somewhat browned by offsetting, also titlepage. Contemporary half calf, rebacked, corners well rounded and worn, edges rubbed. A burlesque on Sir John Carr's "Stranger in Ireland" that resulted in a libel action that the publishers won.