Author: [SHERIDAN (Richard Brinsley), inter alia]:
Title: [The Rival Beauties: A Poetical Contest. Containing, The Bath Picture; or, a sketch of its beauties in 1771. Clio's protest, or, the picture varnished. And Pindar's reply. To which is added, The Ridotto of Bath, a panegyric.]
Description: [Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell..., 1773.] Folio, 291 x 175 mms., pp. [5] - 20, recent buckram; imperfect, lacking first two leaves [title-page and following leaf] and last two leaves [text of "The Ridotto of Bath"]. The work was issued as described in the title, transcribed from ESTC N26065, locating only the copy at Princeton. Job lots from auctions produce some curiosities.

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