Ca 1795 Scrapbook "Extracts from Newspapers"

London (?): By the Author, 1795. Softcover. Scrapbook; laid paper and wraps, hand-sewn with a decorative thread; pp. [18]; slight spotting and age-toning to wraps; pages clean; very good or better.A charming 18th century British scrapbook by an anonymous person filled with newspaper articles from various publications - mostly following maritime news as the French Revolutionary Wars were under way. Also included are several pieces on the arts as well as an account of a "very remarkable appearance of a Tornado at Kentucky in America."