Periodical Debrett John Editor (1 results)

Pp.425(7) recent publications, index & list of plates; engraved pictorial title & 6 engraved portraits (as called for); slight spotting but well preserved in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; extremities worn, backstrip very rubbed with loss at head & tail but sides secure. Issued every ten days thus 3 per month, each with drop-head title. Covers political transactions, parliamentary debates, war equipment, and trials for treason. Eight quarterly volumes were published, 1794/6, becoming 'The Register of the times, and Literary review' in June 1795. Later volumes printed by Charles Whittingham the elder with editorial involvement of John Debrett. Surprisingly uncommon.…