Richard Steele Esq (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Full leather binding in very good condition. PO bookplate. Publication dates for plays are: 1794, 1791, 1792, 1795. Head of spine chipped, top end-band detached. Binding secure. All plays adapted for theatrical representation as performed at Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden and Drury-Lane. Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The Crisis: Or, A Discourse Representing From the Most Authentick Records, The Just Causes of the Late Happy Revolution. Richard Steele Esq., 1714. Printed by Sam. Buckley, London, 1714. 8vo up to 9½" tall. vii., 37pp. with one rear publisher's ad. Title page and pages 23 to end are detached. Title page is browned with tears and chips; remainder of document has light toning and in very good condition. Full title: The Crisis, or, A Discourse representing, from the most Authentick Records, the Just Causes of the late Happy Revolution and the several Settlements of the Crowns of England and Scotland on Her Majesty; and on the Demise of Her Majesty without issue, upon the Most Illustrious Princess Sophia, Electress and Dutchess Dowager of Hanover, and the Heirs of her Body being Protestants; by previous Acts of both Parliaments of the late Kingdoms of England and Scotland; and confirmed by the Parliament of Great Britain: with some Seasonable Remarks on the Danger of a Popish Successor. Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729), was a British writer, politician, and co-founder of The Tatler and The Spectator. The publication of his anti-Tory pamphlets led to his expulsion in 1714 from the House of Commons for "seditious writings.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Full leather binding in very good condition. PO bookplate. Publication dates for plays are: 1794, 1791, 1792, 1795. Head of spine chipped, top end-band detached. Binding secure. All plays adapted for theatrical representation as performed at Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden and Drury-Lane. Book. …