8vo. [4], 71pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards. Without backstrip, naively rebacked with clear tape. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Charles Westrop to head of title page.

The sole edition of a long poem calculated to 'combat the common prejudice of the force of imagination in pregnant women' and 'remove the fears of the fair'.

The inconspicuous author, Ralph Palin, is likely the London-based physician who in 1822 published Observations on the influence of habits and manners, national and domestic, upon the health and organization of the human race: and particularly on the effect of that influence as it relates to the present state of English females, in the higher and middle classes of life.

The Monthly Review were indifferent to Palin's poetical endeavour: 'He employs the machinery of "the Rape of the Lock," and discovers, in almost every page, a memory stored from the writings of Pope: but, though he liberally avails himself of the language and rhymes of the bard of Twickenham, he could not steal his genius and power of versification'.

OCLC records copies at just five locations (BL, Cambridge, NYPL, Oxford, and Texas); COPAC adds one further (RSM).