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Provincial periodicals. The Whitby Spy, 1st edition, Whitby: printed by C. Webster on the crag, 1784, 30 semiweekly numbers bound in one volume with collective title-page, continuous pagination (1-240 + [6] pp. index), spotting, small hole in pp. 149/50 affecting one word recto, contemporary ownership inscription 'Eliz[abet]h Miller, Whitby' to front free endpaper, contepmorary half calf, rubbed and worn, 8vo (17 x 10.6 cm), together with: The Chester Miscellany. Being a Collection of Several Pieces, both in Prose and Verse, which were in the Chester Courant from January 1745, to May 1750, 1st edition, Chester: printed by and for Eliz. Adams, 1750, small tide-mark to upper outer corner of initial quires, repaired closed tear in final leaf, contemporary inscription 'The present (unbound) of the [?] Sir Robert Vaughan Bart. to E. Baker', occasional marginalia in the same hand (often shaved), contemporary mottled sheep, spine refurbished, 12mo (16.4 x 9.8 cm), and The Caledonian; a Quarterly Journal. Volume first, 1st edition, Dundee, 1821, 5 numbers (of 6) in one volume, half-title, 3 engraved plates of mechanical devices, contemporary half sheep, head of spine rubbed, corners worn, 8vo (20.5 x 12.3 cm) (Qty: 3) ESTC P3148 (Whitby Spy). T166017 (Chester Miscellany); Case 468 (Chester Miscellany). ESTC traces five copies world-wide for the Whitby Spy, with notable pieces including The History of Henry and Louisa, in which the protagonist Henry travels to Canada and encounters the Algonquins, an oriental tale concerning King 'Hormoz' of Persia, and a verse narrative of an air balloon voyage to the moon ('Midst the most furious of Tornados/In my Balloon I left Barbadoes', p. 61), published soon after the Montgolfiers' first balloon flight in 1783. Much of the Chester Miscellany concerns the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Copac traces one copy only of the Caledonian, in the British Library, indicating that a second volume was published to contain the sixth number, not present here.