The Thistle, By Sir John de Grahame Knight. [at verso of last leaf of each number], Edinburgh, printed and sold by W. Cheyne, Saturday, July 3. 1734 - Wednesday, November 13. 1734, Nos. 21-40 only (of 105), 4°, mounted on guards (no. 26 cropped at head with partial loss of first line), 19th-century half calf (upper cover detached).

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The Thistle, By Sir John de Grahame Knight. [at verso of last leaf of each number], Edinburgh, printed and sold by W. Cheyne, Saturday, July 3. 1734 - Wednesday, November 13. 1734, Nos. 21-40 only (of 105), 4°, mounted on guards (no. 26 cropped at head with partial loss of first line), 19th-century half calf (upper cover detached).

Lot Essay

Literature: W.J. Couper: The Edinburgh Periodical Press, Stirling, 1908, I pp. 65-67.

"Each number was usually begun by either a letter to the editor or an editorial summary of news with running comments. Then came copious extracts from the London journals." The periodical admitted pieces of poetry but was chiefly interested in politics, mainly anti-Jacobite.

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