The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, James Anderson, Volume Third (plus part of Fourth), 1791, Edinburgh

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performance of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work calculated to disseminate useful knowledge among all ranks of people at a small expense. by James Anderson, LLD. Volume Third. There is only one title page for 'Volume Third', but this bound book also contains at least part of the fourth volume.

A miscellany of original writings, covering a wide range of subjects including Idleness, The Trojan War, Chemical Arts, John Napier, Gothic Architecture, Adam Smith, Rearing Silk-Worms in Scotland, Travel, Norfolk Island, Music, Poetry, Female Education, The British Constitution, and many others.

Published by Mundell and Son, Edinburgh, 1791. First edition thus, comprising bound editions form Wednesday, May 11, 1791 to Wednesday, August 31, 1791. 

A good copy of this interesting 18th Century journal. Bound with leather spine with title panel, with leather corners. Marbled paper over boards. Covers bumped, scuffed and worn with some creasing and wear to joints, making covers a little fragile, but all still bound.

Previous owners' signatures at front, in ink and pencil, with some scattered annotations. Text is good throughout with scattered minor flaws such as occasional spotting, creasing or small corner tear. 

Text in English.

Frontispiece + Title + 4pp Index + 1pp Errata and Binder's instructions + 232pp + xxxiii - xl + Plate + 225 - 348pp + Fold-out + xli - xlviii + Plate + 152pp + Plate + 153 - 224pp + ix - xxiv +233 - 264pp + Plate + 273 - 312pp. Missing one plate of 'Loch Leven'.

Dimensions:

Approximately 175mm high x 115mm wide x 40mm deep.

Weight approximately 460g unpacked.