[Drop-head title:] The original. No. I. [- No.XXIV]

[London]: [Ibotson and Palmer], [1835]. 380pp. Without general title page (presumably issued with a later number?) [Bound with:] The municipal corporation reform act. An abstract of the act...intituled an act to provide for the regulation of municipal corporations in england and wales...London. Printed by Dean and Munday, [1835]. 30pp. [And:] [JONES, Thomas, Mrs.] An account of the loss of the wesleyan missionaries...in the maria mail-boat off the island of antigua, in the west indies, february 28, 1826. First edition. 24pp. 8vo. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, later rebacked. Extremities rubbed. Recent book-label of Anne and F. G. Renier to FEP, manuscript index to front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting, occasional damp-staining. A run of the first 24 original issues (of 29) of police magistrate Thomas Walker's (1784-1836) short- lived weekly periodical. Printed every Wednesday between 20th May and 2nd December, 1835, The Original collected Walker's thoughts on a diverse range of subjects, comprising, as stated in the prefatory address: 'whatever is most interesting and important in Religion and Politics, in Morals and Manners, and in our Habits and Customs', with the intention of raising 'the national tone in whatever concerns us socially or individually' and provide 'an alternative diet of sound and comfortable doctrines blended with innoxious amusement.' The third bound work is a rare survival of the first edition of an account of the wreck of the mail boat Maria in which the lives of five Methodist missionaries, two women, and four children were lost off the coast of Antigua in 1826; chiefly drawn up by Mrs. Thomas Jones, the only survivor. OCLC locates copies at only three locations (Duke, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, and Hamilton College); COPAC adds no further. .