Addison Steele Et Al (52 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. A 1979 reprint of the 1945 revision. Volume 3 only (of 4) of essays originally published in the English daily literary journal in the years 1711-1715. Though several authors contributed, the majority of these writings were by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele. The popular journal focused on politics, the arts and culture. Its style was later copied by such notables as Samuel Johnson in his "The Rambler" and Oliver Goldsmith in his "Citizen of the World." Entry 166 in Everyman's Library series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 5. Full black paper-covered boards with titling and "Everyman's Library" gilt-stamped on spine, dolphin-and-anchor device borrowed from Aldine Press in gilt at tail of spine. In blue dust jacket variant with Ann Strugnell drawing to front panel. --- An about-Fine copy: bright, tightly-bound and unmarked. Unclipped jacket (£8.95) with conspicuous rubbing to covers, adhesive remnants to front panel and a 2 cm. tear to upper front edge, else intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall ; [4], 492 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Rebound Cloth. Ex-library (Poor). Published circa 1890? Binding has edgewear; many pages have soil and chipped edges; one page has annotations; reading copy. xii, 194 p., well illustrated. Murray, Chas. O. (illustrator).

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. LAST REPRINTED EDITION". GOOD CONDITION. TOP ENDPAPER CORNER CLIPT (else very good) ; Gold spine titles on ORANGE cloth hardcovers. Orange VINES "RKE1905" DECORATED ENDPAPERS. "RKE" spine 1" decoration.; 308+313pg pages; Everyman's Lib #164.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. LAST REPRINTED EDITION". GOOD CONDITION. TOP ENDPAPER CORNER CLIPT (else very good) ; Gold spine titles on ORANGE cloth hardcovers. Orange VINES "RKE1905" DECORATED ENDPAPERS. "RKE" spine 1" decoration.; 306+377+4pg pages; Everyman's Lib #164.

Leather Bound. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Boards are detached and missing from volume three. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. ; brown cloth. part of Two volume set. this is volume only Part of "The Family Library"326 pages . some wear at the spine extremities and corner tips. Some fairly light rubbed soil to the board cloth.old book but very clean and tightly bound . no writing minimal foxing. see pictures.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Slightly smaller book, light brown-ribbed cloth, gilt lettering bright on leather patch at spine top, remnant of sticker at spine top for a private library (No. 78), small homemade library card and envelope glued inside front cover with no entries, ink number there also, each selection has separate pagination. Light wear to tips and spine bottom, spine very slightly worn. Near Very Good. …

Leather. Condition: Good. Full calf leather. 276 pp., plus appendix and index. Founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, the Spectator ran from 1711 to 1712 as a daily publication, featuring a main character 'Mr. Spectator,' and his friends, through which commentary on social life in England was portrayed. The Spectator promoted philosophical and moral topics and was very popular in English coffee and tea houses. The 20th century philosopher Jurgen Habermas saw the paper as a key piece in the 'structural transformation of the public sphere,' in England (see Wikipedia entry on the Spectator for the previous information and quote). Includes work by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, John Hughes, Thomas Tickell and others. GOOD condition. Minor fading and soiling. Moderate scuffing and wear along the extremities, with the leather spine flaking a bit. Owner's inscription on the first endpaper. Heavy foxing to the first and last few pages. General toning to the paper.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. NO DUST JACKET. Edition Not Stated. Collection of sketches originally published in The Tatler between 1709 and 1711. BOOK:- Small 256 page book with grey boards; gilt titles are tarnished; some spots of soiling and bubbling on the boards; binding is sound, no loose pages; scattered foxing and offset to the end papers, with very minor isolated cases of foxing in the text; bookplate on verso of FFEP; no ink names, stamps or other permanent markings; uniform page edge browning, with a small splash mark across the top edge. Scan on request. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION THUS. NUMBER 1117 OF 1500 COPIES. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST LYNTON LAMB. LAID IN PUBLISHER'S MONTHLY LETTER AND NOTE. BOOK, SLIP CASE AND DUST JACKET ARE ALL IN PRISTINE CONDITION. NO FLAWS, NO EXCUSES.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 307 pages plus index (complete). Volume 1 only. 'The Spectator' was a daily publication from the early Eighteenth Century. This copy, given its age, is in contented and comfortable condition. The leather cover is much worn and marked and scuffed. It is secure and benign. Within, there is age related foxing throughout. However, the pages are mild, clear, assured, utterly companionable, with a presence and perception that rings agreeable even now. A sure book. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New York, 1898; beige cloth covered boards with gray paper cover and black spine titles; edges faded; mild soiling to boards; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; no jacket; large stain on flyleaf, rear flyleaf, and rear pastedown; pencil marking on flyleaf. 319 pages.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Early edition copy. No dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to green cloth boards. A slight tan to the page edges. Contents remain clear and firm within. A good condition book. …

Or.marbled.boards. Qtr.cloth. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st Folio Society ed. In the slip-case.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Full leather binding. 5 raised bands with red leather spine label. Corners and spine ends edgeworn. Gilt ruled boards. Former owner's name in faded ink to titlepage. Dampstaining to a few pages. Browning and foxing to endpapers.; 303 pp + [9] pp; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.

hardback, 8vo, vi,345pp, frontispiece, owner's name on title page, edges browned, otherwise clean and sound, full leather binding, rubbed, lacks spine title labels, Good condition. Vol. 4 only (of 8).

hardback, 8vo, ii,394pp, frontispiece, owner's name on title page, edges browned, otherwise clean and sound, full leather binding, rubbed, lacks part of spine title label, Good condition. Vol. 2 only (of 8).

hardback, 8vo, ii,372pp, frontispiece, owner's name on title page, edges browned, otherwise clean and sound, full leather binding, rubbed, lacks spine title label, Good condition. Vol. 3 only (of 8).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original full leather with a red leather spine label. Boards scuffed and rubbed. Front board with a warp toward the lower corner. Light foxing.

Leather. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Comprising "The Spectator" No. 252 (Wednesday, December 19, 1711) through No. 321 (Saturday, March 8, 1712). Full calf, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on one red and one black label in two compartments, all edges red. Illustrated with frontispiece engraving. Former owner's signature partially erased dated 26 September 1776 on ffep, small strip of black tape on title page, both hinges repaired and holding, covers and spine worn and rubbed, pages supple, text block tight and square. GOOD. The Spectator. 4. Engraved Frontispiece. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (ii), 303, (i-Index) pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Foolscap8vo, 324 p. Original brown full calf, five raised bands. Small fray to the bottom of the upper joint, lacks the lettering piece, some top edge staining otherwise a VG- copy with the half-title.

hardcover. Condition: poor. David Niven, Glasgow, 1791, 12mos., volume 8 is missing some late pages of text, other 2 volumes missing some index pages. leather bindings in poor condition text itself sound but foxed & waterstained, readers only.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. [nd], ca 1906 as per date of the preface to volume one. Volumes one and two, bound together in one hardback. Encompassing issues from No. 1 (Thursday, March 1, 1711) - No. 169 (Thursday, September 13, 1711). Mottled brown half leather, marbled paper boards, five raised bands at spine, gilt titles and decoration at spine. Boards rubbed to edges with fraying at fore-edge corners. Spine square. Interior hinges cracked, binding else intact; binding sound through textblock. Trace incense scent in pages. Pages lightly toned, else clean and unmarked.…

Hardcover. Tall octavo (7-3/8" x 11") bound in decorated buckram with spine label stamped in pure gold leaf. Printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb with 16 full-page and 30 part-page line drawings, the full-page plates hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Lynton Lamb (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 12mo; vol.4 only; 335, [xi]pp, complete with engraved frontispiece and attractive typographic headpieces. In contemporary full leather with five raised spine bands and gilt lettered red leather title label to second compartment (board corners bumped with minor loss, spine rubbed). With early ink ownership inscription to front pastedown. A very attractive volume; ESTC T160272 (vol.3).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 12mo; vol.3 only; 360, [xii]pp, complete with engraved frontispiece and attractive typographic headpieces. In contemporary full leather with five raised spine bands and gilt lettered red leather title label to second compartment (board corners bumped with minor loss, spine lightly rubbed). With early ink ownership inscription to front pastedown. A very attractive volume; ESTC T160272 (vol.3).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 12mo; vol.5 only; 339, [xii]pp, complete with engraved frontispiece and attractive typographic headpieces. In contemporary full leather with five raised spine bands and gilt lettered red leather title label to second compartment (board corners lightly bumped with very minor loss, spine lightly rubbed). A very attractive volume; ESTC T160272 (vol.5).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. hardback, 12mo, 3 vols, x,xlviii,285;vi,324;vi,262pp, owner's bookplates on endpapers, some scattered foxing, texts clean and tight, brown cloth, gilt spine titles; slightly rubbed, Very Good condition.

Harcover. Condition: Acceptable. Early American stereotyped edition. 12 volumes in 6 books. Thick 16mo. Original suede/calf heavily worn. Boards are detached, and spines are rubbed and chipped, the lettering no longer visible. Spines of several volumes missing portions of leather. Engraved half titles, with "Published by J. Crissy 1832". Title page: "Crissy and Markley 1851". Early American edition of the popular British essayists: "The publisher of the present edition of the Spectator has been desirous of adapting it to the convenience of all readers. the objection to a small type for a book so generally read, it will be perceived is completely obviated, and the size of the volumes renders it portable as a travelling companion." Light damp stain to some front edges. Foxing to endpapers and first few pages. Text is only lightly foxed. Think of the set as reading material on stage coach travel west, to Wisconsin, where the (J.F.; C.A.; Julia A.) Hamilton family appears to have brought their substantial early Americana library. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Due to the size/weight of this collection extra charges to apply for international shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in a Fine slipcase. Tall octavo (7-3/8" x 11") bound in decorated buckram with spine label stamped in pure gold leaf. Printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb with 16 full-page and 30 part-page line drawings, the full-page plates hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. Copy #33 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Lynton Lamb (illustrator).…