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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Various monthly installments for two years (1787 & 1788), incomplete, bound as one. 8vo. Half vellum and marbled boards, printed label to spine, worn, lacking frontis, main title pages and all engraved illustrations bar one. For 1787: January, March, April, June, and September, October all absent, p. 69 in February misprinted as p. 65 which has thrown numbers out of sequence., a couple of other page misprints throughout though sequence resumed. For 1788: January absent, and thereafter runs only up to July, and then finally the supplement, pp.63-66 absent in February, pp.319-20 in June (these may be illustrations) and a number of other leaves absent including a more substantial section between pp.244 & 281, pagination from July inexplicably reverts back to 295 but then numerical sequence resumed with the supplement; supplements present for both years, only one full illustration remaining 'Poetry thro' the Wood Laddie'. A very mixed volume, lacking a good number of sections and illustrations, dog-earring throughout, a working copy only. 51-96, 195-240, 291-[336], 339-352 (lacking leaves), 483-520 (leaves lacking), 531-574, 579-620; 55-100 (leaves lacking), 103-148, 151-182, 199-244, (leaves lacking) 281-326 (leaves lacking), [295?]-340, , 583-624pp., [index].