Spectator Notes General Index Volumes by Addison Joseph Richard Steele (10 results)

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover book in full leather with gilt to spine and boards, 456pp;459pp; b/w frontispieces with tissue guard, vignettes to title pages. Pencil notation to margins by previous owner at intervals. Boards rubbed and worn, some darkening to margins. Some pages in 2nd volume heavily foxed and p367 has 6cm tear affecting text. Boards lightly rubbed but still a Very Good copy. Pictures available.

paperback. Condition: Like New. Like New. book.

VOLUME I ONLY of a two volume set. [frontis], [pictorial title], i-xv, [1], 1-414 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14cm. Contemporary full leather well scuffed; board corners worn; slender splitting to joints with front board slightly pliable towards top but rear board firm; shallow chipping at spine ends with surface abrasions adversely affecting gilt stamping plus losses to title label although gilt lettering at center remains discernable. Modern name-address label on front pastedown; old pencil inscription on ffep; antiquarian ink inscription on ffly with ink carry-through to frontis; antiquarian ink to rp; rfep removed but impressions from its antiquarian ink notes carrying through to preceding two flyleaves. Toning/foxing to interior leaves with some stains. Double-column text. Text block is firm. (Thirteen jpeg images of the book can be emailed upon request.).

Leather Bound. pp. 456; 459. 8vo. Bound in brown leather. Portrait frontispiece. Spine label missing. Spine badly pulled at head, some spotting/rubbing to binding, occasional foxing to contents, which are otherwise unmarked. Binding sound. A reprint of the daily journal, from No.1 to 635, March 1, 1710-11 to December 20, 1714.

Condition: Good. Philadelphia: J. J. Woodward, 1832. Volumes 1 & 2 bound in one volume. 8vo hardcover. Full leather. 456pp, 459pp. Frontispieces. Fair book. Leather scuffed and stained. Fore-edge of pages iii and iv torn. Writing on blank pages at front and rear. (Great Britain, Politics, Government) Inquire if you need further information.

3/4 leather. Condition: Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 846 pages; 1829 J. J. Woodward, Philadelphia. In two volumes, complete. 414; 432 pp. Very handsomely bound in a modern 3/4 morocco with cloth sides; 5 raised bands over spines and decorative gilt details stamped to compartments. Each volume with complete front matter, including extra engraved title pages and engraved fronti plates. Moderate foxing to engraved front matter, and foxing and toning as expected to the page stock. Text printed in two columns. Superficial rubbing over the raised bands at spine which are perhaps a trifle sunned. VG . Oversize book likely to require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Eight structurally sound and internally clean copies, with some unexploded top edges, indicating probable light use and prior reading. Bound in light gray paper over boards, scuffing to tips and extremities and along edges and to spine heads and feet, with light waffling to hand-sewn text-blocks (though without signs of odor or moisture). Some cracking to joints and wearing to and sometimes loss of the printed wraps over spines. Light gray paper over boards, light blue paper over spines and then printed brown paper over those; most are severely abraded, rubbed, and toned, chipped away but still (barely) readable. Penciled or penned titles to spines of some volumes where original titles were lost, else still sturdy, readable, and accessible. Volume I at first free endpaper features three previous owner inscription in pencil and pen, the earliest being from 1837, and denoting an Oxford University owner, too. The volume opens with the first number, "The Spectator's Account of Himself," penned by Addison, and comprises No.s 1-80 in 477 pp. Volume II opens with a dedicatory note to Charles Lord Halifax Volume, comprises No.s 81-169, and has 504 pp. Volume III is comprised of No.s 170 ("On Jealousy," by Joseph Addison) to 251, also by Joseph Addison, "Letters of the Cries of London." Probably the original boards but not further bound in leather as often appears. Volume IV is 454 pp. in length and features No.s 252-321. Volume V is comprised of No.s 322 to 394, featuring works by the usual suspects (Addison, Steele, Budgell, Martyn, Hughes, Hymn, Golding, etc.). Volume VI compiles Nos. 395-472. Volume VII contains No.s 473-555 in 500 pp. Volume VIII is dedicated to Wm. Honeycomb, Esq., attributed to Mr. Budgell, contains No.s 556-633, has 402 pp. and then provides a General Index, lengthy but unpaginated. Authors included the aforementioned editors and contributors Addison and Steele, but also Budgell, Martyn, Hughes, Hymn, Golding and others. This set was in the personal library of Professor Bergen B. Evans, student at University College, born September 19, 1904 ? died February 4, 1978, a Northwestern University professor of English and a television host. It is possible but not known for sure that the set was obtained there at Northwestern University by the previous owner, Richard L. Press, who worked there as an archivist during that time. The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in London and whose initial run lasted only from 1711 to 1712. Eustace Budgell, one of Addison's relatives, and then also the poet John Hughes, too, added a great number of pieces thereto.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

2 vols. Engraved frontispieces and extra title pages, 9 x 5.75", full calf, 459pp, 444pp; 244pp with indexes, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and worn, bottom of spine on volume 2 chipped, spine labels chipping with some missing altogether, hinges loose, inner hinges cracking, some foxing and toning but altogether a decent set. Volume Two is THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS; Containing the Spectator.The Tatler and Guardian.