THE SPECTATOR. VOLUME THE EIGHTH.

12mo, (175mm.), [2],300,[12]p. Engraved frontispiece by Grignion after Hayman, and vignette title, some browning throughout. A good copy in contemporary sprinkled calf, backstrip tooled in gilt, joints split but holding, citron lettering piece carrying the volume number but lacking the title-piece; Signature of Abernethy on the front pastedown endleaf. (ESTC T144210) Numbers 556 to 635 originally published between June 18 and December 20, 1714. Contents include: Bacon flitch at Whichenovre in Staffordshire, who entitled to it, Clergymen, the vanity of some in wearing scarves, and Flattery, how grateful.