The full title reads Fables and other Pieces in Verse . . . With some account of the author, in letters to Robert Southey
Esq. . . . by Mrs. Bray. The dedicatory poem...
Publishing
Mary Ann Parker
Her subscribers included many naval and some military personnel, a sprinkling of the nobility, Sir Joseph Banks
and (separately) his wife
, Frances Boscawen
(bluestocking and admiral's widow), Hannah More
, and printer-antiquary John Bowyer Nichols