Kent
The Kentish Post; or Canterbury News-Letter
£1,638
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Canterbury: printed and sold by J. Abree [- and William Aylett] in St. Margaret's, 1727. 104 semiweekly numbers (899-1002) in one volume, folio (28.5 x 18.5cm), contemporary boards, each number 2 pp., with woodcut headpiece view of Canterbury and woodcut factotum containing letterpress initial, frequent small woodcut vignettes (including cottages for property advertisements), licence stamps in red ink, contents include extracts from other periodicals including the London Gazette, the Daily Courant, the Whitehall Evening Post, etc. (these containing accounts of the Anglo-Spanish War including the siege of Gibraltar and engagements in the West Indies and Central America; the death of George I and succession of George II (number 950); an account from South Carolina ‘that the inhabitants of that colony had risen in great numbers, with a view to the reforming of their laws’ (ibid.), etc.), local advertisements for property, horses, books ('The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution', etc.), apothecaries' wares ('Daffy's Elixir', ‘Dr Bateman’s Pectoral Drops'), court proceedings and executions, and similar, covers detached, closely trimmed along fore and bottom edges with number and bottom line of text frequently shaved, number 966 lacking second leaf (extant leaf heavily stained)