Greetings!  Old Saratoga Books is pleased to offer:

The Spectator: Volume the First, London: J. and R. Tonson, 1767. Brown leather with gilt-stamped red leather spine label. Front free endpaper and frontispiece engraving missing, 324pp +[12]pp index.

Measures 6.75 x 4 inches. Fair. Boards worn and detached and then reattached with homemade brown leather at spine. Foxing, stains, one leaf has burn mark and loss at fore-edge, pages toned. Owner signature on title page: Alexander Gillets book 1773, 3/6s.

A later edition of the collected pages of the London daily newspaper published by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. This first volume contains writings from March 1, 1711 through June 1, 1711.

Thank you for visiting our auctions. Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. We had an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville and now sell books exclusively online. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA).