Stephens John Calhoun Editor (3 results)

Original wraps. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 20p octavo, a very good copy in green printed wraps.

Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff green wrappers. x, 19pp. Illustration. Very good. Minor edgewear. Attractive, tight copy of these three poems, first published in London and possibly authored by a Reverend Thomas Fitzgerald. The second poem, "Tomo Chachi, an Ode," celebrates the native American Tomachichi who was brought to London, and the third, "A Copy of Verses on Mr. Oglethorpe's Second Voyage to Georgia," celebrates the English colonist and philanthropist. Series VI, Number 2, in the nifty "Emory Sources & Reprints" series.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition dark blue linen boards and gold spine lettering enclosed within a red block border, enclosed in a fine condition illustrated dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Text and Index. "In 1713, soon after publication of the Spectator had come to an end, its place on the breakfast tables of Queen Anne's London was taken by the Guardian. Richard Steele, continuing in the new paper the blend of learning, wit, and moral instruction that had proved so attractive in the Tatler and Spectator, was the editor and principal writer; in the 175 numbers of the Guardian he included 53 essays by Joseph Addison, as well as contributions by Alexander Pope, George Berkeley, and several others, some of whom doubtless transmitted their papers through the famous lion's-head letterbox that Addison had erected in Button's coffeehouse. "These papers," as John C. Stephens writes in the introduction to this edition of the Guardian, "helped to form and to shape the morals and manners of countless generations in Britain and abroad." With this edition Richard Steele's Guardian can take its place by The Spectator in a critically edited format for modern scholars. John C. Stephens prepared the edition from the original printings of the papers. He has fully annotated and indexed the contents and has written a comprehensive introduction discussing especially the authorship of the individual essays." - from the inner front jacket flap.