![]() ![]() 3, not affecting text, 19 mm closed tear to leaves a and aa, vol. A few dark spots to covers, light wear to extremities, pale foxing to text blocks, 30 mm loss to base of leaf N2, vol. Buy The Spectator (Volume V) by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper in each volume, "Sarah Moore, 1802". Contemporary tree calf, spines banded in gilt with gilt decoration in the compartments, red and black morocco labels to spines, board edges gilt.Įngraved frontispieces and title vignettes. ![]() DescriptionĨ volumes, octavo (187 x 112 mm). "The title became one of the most famous in the annals of publishing" (ODNB). Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. The content was innovative and made the gentlemanly culture of letters accessible to a wide audience for the first time. ![]() Appealing to the growing numbers of middle class traders and shop keepers in London, Joseph Addison (1672-1719) estimated it to have been read by a tenth of the city's population, primarily in coffee shops. A late 18th-century edition of one of the first British periodicals, originally published daily in 17. ![]()
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