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 Small mark to jacket on

Small mark to jacket on first volume

several surface marks in places on boards including a light partial ring stain on final volume

First edition to carry the E

pp 416 + [ii] index

internally super clean and bright with owner's inked name and date 1955 to first front endpaper

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 Small mark to jacket onLondon: 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.