Title	The New Bath Guide (Browne)
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Author	Anstey C
Publisher	John Browne
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Plates	Engraved title (1807) & 11 stipple engraved plates by F.Eginton of Birmingham
Category	UK Topography
Subject	Bath
Topo Subcat	Anstey's New Bath Guide
Books Series	Anstey's New Bath Guide
Series Sequence No,	1809
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County	Bath
Town	Bath
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Purchase Date	03/01/2005
Bookseller	Dominic Winter
Source	Swindon D.Winter
Cost	$13.00

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Pagination	viii, 144, engraved title & 11 stipple engravings
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Descriptive Comments	Printed by John Browne...
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Estimated Value	$30.00
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ABE July 2006
 THE NEW BATH GUIDE: or, Memoirs of the B-N-R-D Family. In a Series of Poetical Epistles. A New Edition,
ANSTEY, Christopher.]  
Bookseller: Barry McKay Rare Books
(Appleby in Westmorland Cumbria, CMA, United Kingdom) Price: £ 40.00
Book Description: Bath: Printed by John Browne, 6, Bridge-Street, and sold by Didier and Tebbett, 75, St. James's-Street, London, 1809. 8vo (162 x 100mm.), viii,144p. engraved vignette title and 11 stipple-engraved plates, drawn and engraved by Francis Eginton of Birmingham, some slight soiling to the first few gatherings. Later, 19th century, buff linen, ms paper back label. The engraved title and plates dated 1807. A nice provincially printed edition of an immensely popular, and highly celebrated, satire which ran to around forty editions - mainly printed in London or Dublin. The adventures of Squire Blunderhead and his family and the manners of the fashionable town are all retailed which grace and good humour. Walpole held that `so much humour, fun and poetry, so much originality, never met together before', while Smollett drew on Anstey's book for Humphrey Clinker.
 

ABE July 2006
THE NEW BATH GUIDE: or, Memoirs of the B-N-R-D Family. In a Series of Poetical Epistles. A New Edition,
ANSTEY, Christopher.]
Bookseller: Barry McKay Rare Books
(Appleby in Westmorland Cumbria, CMA, United Kingdom) Price: £ 40.00
Book Description: Bath: Printed by John Browne, 6, Bridge-Street, and sold by Didier and Tebbett, 75, St. James's-Street, London, 1809. 8vo (162 x 100mm.), viii,144p. engraved vignette title and 11 stipple-engraved plates, drawn and engraved by Francis Eginton of Birmingham, some slight soiling to the first few gatherings. Later, 19th century, buff linen, ms paper back label. The engraved title and plates dated 1807. A nice provincially printed edition of an immensely popular, and highly celebrated, satire which ran to around forty editions - mainly printed in London or Dublin. The adventures of Squire Blunderhead and his family and the manners of the fashionable town are all retailed which grace and good humour. Walpole held that `so much humour, fun and poetry, so much originality, never met together before', while Smollett drew on Anstey's book for Humphrey Clinker.