In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their own game. So when Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape from her squalid surroundings in Bowling Inn Alley, she ventures first into the scurrilous world of the pamphleteers.

First edition, first impression; 8vo (190 x 130 mm); creasing to half title from printing process, otherwise internally fine; publisher's coral boards, printed dust-jacket with a hint of dust-soiling, more so spine, otherwise near-fine.