The drone in the ball room, or, Lucky escape from a mess of distresses
Subtitle: a poem written without any intervention of the letter S so prevalent in the English language ... illustrated by sixty-eight vignettes, with a critique on the poetry and painting ... notes on ... Hastings, &c
By: edited by the Rev. F. Newnham; vignettes re-drawn, and cut on wood, by W.A. Walker.
Publisher: Printed by G. Taylor
Published: 1828
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
Notes: Imprint date, "early in Dec   1828," from inserted ms. "Introductory Observations" of the author.

Altered plates. First page of ms. insertions states "After the work had passed quite through the press ... some latent ... departures from decency ... were detected. This opposition of engraving tool ... prevented the intended circulation of the work ..." Plates have been scarified and redrawn.

This copy has (2) p. "Introductory Observations" inserted at front, (4) p., "Additional notes" inserted at end, in author's holograph.  BM 171:242 describes its 2 copies as containing "copious ms. notes."