The New Bath Guide, Christopher Anstey, 1830 [George Cruikshank]

An illustrated edition of Anstey’s celebrated satirical poem, first published in 1766, offering a witty portrait of fashionable society in Georgian Bath. This 1830 edition is embellished with seven plates by George Cruikshank, whose lively caricatures enhance the poem’s social satire. A notable combination of eighteenth-century verse with early nineteenth-century illustration by a leading graphic satirist.

Good/Fair. Original brown cloth. Book has been rebacked. Binding is firm. All plates present. Pages are moderately tanned. New end papers. Ads present to front of book. Original spine strip has been glued to spine. Boards have moderate edge-wear with some bumping to corners. Tanning to edges.