The "Smales family"copy,in half calf with raised bands & elaborate gilt lettering pieces marbled sides & matching endpapers.Doublepage fontispiece engraving of the Abbey.Topics include a first hand account of the disaster at Kettleness where the whole village slipped into the sea in the middle of the night.Report of a trial Agar v Clark re a piece of land in the River Esk opposite Grosmont Hall.Remarks on the formation of a railway and Dr Godman on the "Injurious effects of Tight Lacing" etc. Now widely available in various digitised forms but the original volumes are increasingly scarce.