THE SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS: WINCHESTER (Gateway Series)

Text/NEW & Bright. Illustrated, wine linen boards/NF w/fading to spine. DJ/None. Map of London, 1741-5, biography of authors precedes text. Early novel; 18th century English literature. Collection of 33 the Sir Roger de Coverley papers first published in the Spectator. This 1904 edition reproduces papers edited by Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) and Richard Steele (1672 -1729) for the first Collected Edition of the Spectator, 1712 - 1715, with modernized spelling and annotations. Tales of a baronet, Sir Roger de Coverley, a gentleman of Worcestershire, in life in 1711 London --- an aging and mellowed Restoration rake who supped with the high, once fought a duel, kicked Bully Dawson in a public coffeehouse for calling him youngster, and known unconsumated love, now a quaint, harmless and amiable representative of the Tory landowning class.