THE WHITBY REPOSITORY, and Monthly Miscellany:Religious,Sentimental,Literary & Scientific.
Book Description
                        The "Smales family"copy,in half calf with raised bands & elaborate gilt lettering pieces marbled sides & matching endpapers.Doublepage frontispiece engraving  of the Abbey.plus three other plates and a silhouette of George Sykes to illustrate a biography Topics include " A visit to the Pere La Chaise Cemetary in Paris" William Scoresby on Magnetism, A discussion of the name "Streonshealle",The Death Penalty, "An appeal to the Ladies of Great Britain,on the subject of Slavery" The errection of a Monument to Captain Cook,etc.etc.Now widely  available in various digitised forms but the original volumes are increasingly scarce.
                    
                                    
                        Author
                        Various
                    
                    
                                        
                        Date
                        1827
                    
                    
                                        
                        Binding
                        Contemporary half leather
                    
                    
                                        
                        Publisher
                        Whitby Printed and Published by R.Kirby,Bookseller Bridge Street 1827.
                    
                    
                    
                                        
                        Condition
                        Very Good
                    
                    
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