Days with Sir Roger de Coverley

x (ii), 82 (2) pp, illus. Reprinted from the Spectator, 1886. Owner's ex libris plate on front paste down. 8 titled sections, approx 40 illustrations. 6.75" x 8.5". Gilt illustrated blue cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine, and gilt text block. Cloth frayed 1/32" or so at top spine, with lesser wear to to bottom spoine, and faint wear to forecorner tips. fr panel gilt design Near Fine, spine letters faded but legible. "Sir Roger de Coverley, fictional character, devised by Joseph Addison, who portrayed him as the ostensible author of papers and letters that were published in Addison and Richard Steele's influential periodical The Spectator. As imagined by Addison, Sir Roger was a baronet of Worcestershire and was meant to represent a typical landed country gentleman. He was also a member of the fictitious Spectator Club, and the de Coverley writings included entertaining vignettes of early 18th-century English life that were often considered The Spectator's best feature." Size: Wide Octavo.…