8vo. No. I (Tuesday, October 24th, 1797) - no. 34 (Tuesday, June 12th, 1798.); all published. [6], 272pp. With continuous pagination and signatures. Title repeated as caption on first page of each weekly issue.Contemporary gilt-ruled calf-backed, vellum-tipped, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, foot of spine worn. Remnants of book-label and early inked ownership inscription to head of general title page, typed bookseller's description pasted to REF.

The complete run of a short-lived Whitby-printed weekly periodical comprised of classical verse translations and imitations, with essays on aesthetics and philosophy, by William Watkins (1755-1811).

Watkins, a friend and contemporary of fellow Whitby-based mariner, poet, and playwright Francis Gibson (bap. 1752, d. 1805) - to whom the Anomaliae is dedicated - was responsible for the equally short-lived local periodical (in imitation of the Spectator) the Whitby Spy (1784), and, in 1802, a tragedy The Fall of Carthage, which was seemingly never performed outside of provincial Yorkshire.

ESTC records copies at just four locations worldwide (BL, Cambridge, Leeds, Oxford).