GOOD to VERY GOOD CONDITION
This sale is for an
EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY LEATHER and hardback edition entitled “The Spectator, with Sketches of the Lives
of the Authors,” Volume I, by The
Spectator, with an engraved frontispiece.
It was printed by and
for W. Gracie; Also, for J. Rennison, Booksellers, Berwick, and W. Baynes, of
London, in 1807 and is Vol. I., No. 25.
Please note this is Volume I only (there were 8 volumes in total).
An early 19th
century/late Georgian reprint of the first volume of The Spectator, a daily publication of 1711–12, founded by Joseph
Addison and Richard Steele in England, with added Lives of the authors. Eustace
Budgell, a cousin of
· Names of the Authors of the Papers in Vol 1
(papers No. 1 to 80)
· Sketches
of the Lives of the Authors
· Sir Richard Steele
· Joseph Addison
· Eustace Budgell
· John Hughes
· Thomas Tickell
· Henry Grove
· Henry Martyn
· Dr. Zachary Pearce
· Dedication
· The Spectator:
· No. 1. Thursday, March 1, 1711
· To No. 80. Friday, June 1, 1711
· Index to Volume 1
The book measures 7.25
inches x 4.25 inches and has 355 pages + Index.
The book is in
good, neat condition for its age, with minor wear/bumps and is a little
grubby/faded to the leather and marbled hardback cover, with a vintage previous
owner’s armorial book-plate, and another’s signature at the front and no other
ink or pencil markings in the book. The binding is good with no loose or
missing pages. There is no dust-jacket.
A wonderful EARLY
NINETEENTH CENTURY edition.
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or 1st Class = £3.90
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