THE WHITBY REPOSITORY, and Monthly Miscellany:Religious,Sentimental,Literary & Scientific. Vol 3 new series

The "Smales family" copy [with the later bookplate of William Henry Galleway] in half calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering pieces marbled sides and matching endpapers. Doublepage frontispiece engraving of the Abbey.Topics include Mr Moorsom Mr Ramsden Mr Chapman and the Whitby Elections. Improving the Conditions of the Poor.The Hermit of Eskdaleside [some 30 pages] Travels in America and the Existence of Slavery Lord Mulgrave in Jamaica. The ten Whitby "Talents" each identified in the margins"The adventures of a stick" by himself etc.etc.Now widely available in various digitised forms but the original volumes are increasingly scarce.