Volume Set by Spectator (2 results)
More imagesPublished by 1778-1797 1778
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Seller: Cosmo Books, Shropshire., United KingdomCosmo Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Volumes 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 & 8 published by W. Wilson, Dublin 1778 (10 x 17.5 cms), each with an engraved frontis & title page by Francis Hayman & Jacques Philippe de Bas ; Volumes 1 & 6 published by Darton & Harvey, London, 1797 (9 x 14 cms), v1 with a frontis portrait of Joseph Addison. All bound in full… leather. The Dublin editions have sound boards, with title labels, though all without volume number labels and rather rubbed. The London editions have cracked upper boards, and labels absent for v1. The contents of all eight are clean and quite crisp paper throughout. See pictures for further detail. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Featured Items; Printed before 1800; Special Features. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.
Published by D. Paterson 1785
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, U.S.A.Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
Contact seller5-star sellerFull-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Lacks volume I. Volume II: Lacks front free endpaper. All volumes: Loss to spine head and spine base, boards rubbed, stained, ink and pencil name. 1785 Full-Leather. 335; 312; 288; 292; 304; 324; 287 pp. Seven volume set, volumes II-VIII. The Spectator was a daily publication founded by…Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England, lasting from 1711 to 1712. Each "paper", or "number", was approximately 2,500 words long, and the original run consisted of 555 numbers, beginning on 1 March 1711. These were collected into seven volumes. The paper was revived without the involvement of Steele in 1714, appearing thrice weekly for six months, and these papers when collected formed the eighth volume. Eustace Budgell, a cousin of Addison's, and the poet John Hughes also contributed to the publication. In Number 10, Mr. Spectator states that The Spectator will aim "to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality". The journal reached an audience of thousands of people every day, because "the Spectators was something that every middle-class household with aspirations to looking like its members took literature seriously would want to have." He hopes it will be said he has "brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools, and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee?houses". Women were a target audience for The Spectator, because one of the aims of the periodical was to increase the number of women who were "of a more elevated life and conversation." Steele states in The Spectator, No. 10, "But there are none to whom this paper will be more useful than to the female world." He recommends that readers of the paper consider it "as a part of the tea-equipage" and set aside time to read it each morning. The Spectator sought to provide readers with topics for well-reasoned discussion, and to equip them to carry on conversations and engage in social interactions in a polite manner. In keeping with the values of Enlightenment philosophies of their time, the authors of The Spectator promoted family, marriage, and courtesy.
