Oblong folio (11 1/4 x 16 7/8 inches). Letterpress title, 6 hand-coloured etched plates by Heath, each incorporating a sizeable central view (generally a vignette) surrounded by between four and eight smaller vignettes, most with integral sub-titling and speech bubbles. (Some soiling, tear to lower margin of each leaf, affecting the image area of two plates and plate area of four plates). Original wrappers, re-backed with old paper, housed in a 20th-century leather-backed cloth box. Heath emphasises some of the more bizarre stylish aspects of the social scene, as well as recording the difficulties that could be encountered on the journey from London, local beauty spots, or places of interest and also records the relatively new phenomenon of sea-bathing for health reasons. Writing in 1805, W.C. Oulton describes the extraordinary contraptions used to preserve the modesty of would-be bathers: the bathing machines in use at Margate were "four-wheeled carriages, covered with canvas, and having at one end of them an umbrella of the same materials which is let down to the surface of the water so that the bather descending from the machine by a few steps is concealed from the public view, whereby the most refined female is enabled to enjoy the advantages of the sea with the strictest delicacy." Heath includes a vignette where two young rakes try (unsuccessfully) to catch a glimpse of these "refined females" using telescopes. He ends his pictorial survey with a small self-portrait that addresses his audience with a promise to produce more sketches the following year. In original buff paper wrapper, edges chipped and somewhat soiled - else good. Coloured plates in order: 1. Eight vignette scenes (including title) surrounding a central illustration. The first vignette is titled "Landing with your luggage at London Bridge." 2. Eight smaller vignettes surrounding a larger central vignette. The first vignette titled "Hunting for Lodgings..." 3. Five smaller vignettes surrounding a larger central vignette with a panoramic scene of crowds along the pier running the length of the lower margin. The first vignette is titled "Sacred Music." 4. Fours vignettes surrounding a more extensive central vignette. The first vignette titled "Kingsgate Politeness..." 5. Five smaller vignettes gathered around a more significant, more central vignette with a panoramic coaching scene running the length of the upper border. The first vignette is titled "Is it a Butterfly." 6. Six smaller vignettes surrounding a slightly larger vignette of Margate Races. The first vignette is titled "Do you come by the Hopposition Sir?".