Condemned by the learned, like some other masterpieces, as worthless, Munchausen's travels have obtained such a world-wide fame, that the story of their origin possesses a general and historic interest apart from whatever of obscurity or of curiosity it may have to recommend it.
The work first appeared in London in the course of the year 1785.

No copy of the first edition appears to be accessible; it seems, however, to have been issued some time in the autumn, and in the _Critical Review_ for December 1785 there is the following notice: "Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia.

Small 8vo, IS.

(Smith).

This is a satirical production calculated to throw ridicule on the bold assertions of some parliamentary declaimers.