THE WHITBY REPOSITORY, and Monthly Miscellany:Religious,Sentimental,Literary & Scientific. Vol IV

The "Smales family" copy of volume 4 in the new series,once again in matching half calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering pieces marbled sides and matching endpapers with the bookplate of William Henry Galleway. Contents include" The Grave Digger-Michael Parker" serialised "An Address to the Benevolent Ladies of Whitby on the Necessity and Propriety of Removing a Certain Class of Children from the Ship Yards " Remarks on abstinance from West Indian Sugar & several pieces on Jamaican Slavery." A Descriptive Tour from Newcastle to Scarboro. serialised. With the folding frontispiece of the Abbey & several other engraved plates.Now widely available in various digitised forms but the original volumes are increasingly scarce. A nice example. [ A second cheaper copy is available, also in half leather but without the Smales association price & scans on request].