[MIDDLETON (Thomas Fanshaw)] — The Country Spectator.

Gainsborough: Printed by Messers. Mozley and Co., 1793. First edition, 8vo (205 x 120 mm), [8], 266pp., the 8 preliminary pages were issued with the final number and are often missing, several neat circular library stamps, numbers in ink to verso of title page, endpapers brown from turn-ins, cont. half calf, rubbed, upper cover detached. A complete run of thirty-three weekly numbers, edited and largely written by Thomas Middleton, published October 1792 - May 1793, bound up with an additional half-title, general title, dedication leaf and table of contents. Middleton was Coleridge's protector and mentor at Christ's Hospital and later at Jesus College, Cambridge.