Spectator Sketches Lives Authors Explanatory by Addison Joseph Richard Steele (12 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Full Leather. Condition: Good+. A decent copy in original binding with some rubbing and some loss to leather and to gilt on spine. Some rubbing to covers. Rear fep missing. Some light foxing throughout (not affecting legibility). Owner's name on ffep. [ Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair ] Size: 16mo. Book.

Full Leather. Condition: Good+. A decent copy in original binding with some rubbing and some loss to leather and to gilt on spine. Some rubbing to covers. Rear fep missing. Some light foxing throughout (not affecting legibility). Owner's name on ffep. [ Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair ] Size: 16mo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Originally published in the 1700s, the Spectator was a daily publication in prose format intended to provoke discussion and address literary themes. The target audience was women, but it was advertised as being for the family. Volume I, No. I begins with an issue dated Thursday, March 1, 1710 and Volume XII, No. Monday, December 1714. Bound in the original dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spines. Heavy chipping to book cloth on spines, joints, and edges of boards of Volume 1/2. Minor soiling to boards of all volumes and minor chipping to book cloth on remaining volumes. Front board of Volume 11/12 is detached but present. Occasional spots of soiling and foxing to interiors, and browning throughout. LIT/082423.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. London:; T. Hamilton, R. Ogle; Edinburgh: Ogle and Aikman; Glasgow: M. Ogle, 1808. 8 volumes. Reprint of the periodical originally published between 1711 and 1714. xii+344p.+ 9-page index; vi+360p.+ 12-page index; iv+336p.+11-page index; v+311p.+8-page index; iv+324p.+9-page index; iv+324p.+16-page index; v+349p.+11-page index; viii+297p.+9-page index. Foxing to early and late pages of some volumes, otherwise internally very good. Marbled endpapers and page edges; top edges faded. Bound in old calf, rubbed at all extremities including spine edges, with gilt lettering and decorations to spines; gilt rubbed and worn with some loss, especially vols. 1 and 2. Owner's name on blank page after endpaper of vol. 7.

Leather. Condition: Good/No Jacket. Octavo, Light wear to covers. A few pages are lightly soiled in each volume. Scattered foxing. Along with his friend Richard Steele, Addison was an essayist for The Tatler, a newspaper that covered London's political and social elite. When The Tatler ceased production in 1711, Steele and Addison formed The Spectator, with the intent to "enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality." The Spectator offered a single, long essay every day but Sunday, on subjects ranging from fashion to literary criticism. It was narrated by the fictitious Mr. Spectator, whose "Spectator's Club" included a cast of characters to entertain, comment on affairs of the day, and teach moral lessons. One of the paper's biggest fans was Benjamin Franklin, who admitted in his autobiography that he had modeled his prose after Addison's essays.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Eight volumes. 12mo in full publisher's calf with gilt-stamped titling and decoration to the spines. G+ to VG-. Wear and rubbing to spines and edges. All boards are firmly attached and bindings are strong. Light foxing throughout. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box. International orders will require an additional shipping charge.

8 volumes, 12mo, pp. xxii, 369, [7]; vi, 383, [1], [7]; iv, 362, [7]; v, [1], 336, [6]; iv, 340, [6]; iv, 342, [10]; v, [1], 372, [7]; viii, 316, [6]; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfbacks, printed paper labels on spines; spine extremities occasionally chipped, with pieces lost, all with some minor cracking, but in all, a good, sound set of a perennial favorite.