Sir Roger De Coverley and The Spectator's Club - Cassell's National Library

Richard STEELE/Joseph ADDISON

Published by Cassell & Company Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1886

About this Item

Part of the introduction reads.Richard Steele and Joseph Addison were almost of the same age. They were both born in the year 1672 - Steele, a lawyer's son, in Dublin, about the 12th of March (1671, old style); Addison in a Wiltshire parsonage on the following 1st May. Steele had already lost both father and mother,and was very friendless, when he was sent to Charterhouse School as a boy on the foundation. There he first met Joseph Addison. Steele and Addison as schoolboys were alike in deep-seated religious feeling, and in the possession of that genius which has made their names still pleasant in our ears. They differed greatly in external accidents of character, Steele with an Irish warmth of kindliness, was frank, social, forgetful of himself; Addison was reserved, shy and except in free intercourse with a few intimate friends, embarrassed by self-consciousness. One of the Cassell's National Library Series Nos. 29 Advertisements on both endpapers. Book in good condition, clean tight copy, some marks on endpapers down spine. No Dusta Jacket Illustrated brown hardback with gold lettering and designs. Faded lettering on spine, and some marks otherwise also in good condition. Other Nos in this series available. Book#102690.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sir Roger De Coverley and The Spectator's Club - Cassell's National Library
• Publisher: Cassell & Company Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
• Publication Date: 1886
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket