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ANSTEY CHRISTOPHER: (1724-1805) English poet, famous for his long epistolary poem The New Bath Guide... - ANSTEY CHRISTOPHER: (1724-1805) English poet, famous for his long epistolary poem The New Bath Guide (1766). A.L.S., Chrst. Anstey , one page, 4to, n.p. (Bath?), 18 th September 1795, to the Reverend Charles Dyer. Anstey announces 'As I am aware of your partiality to my unworthy productions, I take the liberty of sending you a little sonnet which I wrote the other day upon a very interesting subject, and which you will find on the other side of this half sheet of paper' and further remarks 'This melancholy & sentimental species of writing is, I find, very much come into fashion of late, and I have been induced to attempt it from a desire of doing poetical justice to the character of an old friend and acquaintance….' To the integral leaf appears Anstey's printed sonnet To my old Wig . Hand addressed to the verso by the poet. Some light overall age wear, a few small areas of paper loss (not affecting the text or signature) and a neat split to the central vertical fold. About VG