Spectator Notes General Index: First Edition (4 results)

First Edition. Poor copy with wear and tear. Text remains clear and unblemished. Physical description; 1 v. : ill., 2 ports ; 25 cm. Subjects; Steele, Richard Sir 1672-1729 Portraits. Addison, Joseph 1672-1719 Portraits. English literature Periodicals. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Poor copy with wear and tear. Text remains clear and unblemished. Physical description; 1 v. : ill., 2 ports ; 25 cm. Subjects; Steele, Richard Sir 1672-1729 Portraits. Addison, Joseph 1672-1719 Portraits. English literature Periodicals. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Eight structurally sound and internally clean copies, with some unexploded top edges, indicating probable light use and prior reading. Bound in light gray paper over boards, scuffing to tips and extremities and along edges and to spine heads and feet, with light waffling to hand-sewn text-blocks (though without signs of odor or moisture). Some cracking to joints and wearing to and sometimes loss of the printed wraps over spines. Light gray paper over boards, light blue paper over spines and then printed brown paper over those; most are severely abraded, rubbed, and toned, chipped away but still (barely) readable. Penciled or penned titles to spines of some volumes where original titles were lost, else still sturdy, readable, and accessible. Volume I at first free endpaper features three previous owner inscription in pencil and pen, the earliest being from 1837, and denoting an Oxford University owner, too. The volume opens with the first number, "The Spectator's Account of Himself," penned by Addison, and comprises No.s 1-80 in 477 pp. Volume II opens with a dedicatory note to Charles Lord Halifax Volume, comprises No.s 81-169, and has 504 pp. Volume III is comprised of No.s 170 ("On Jealousy," by Joseph Addison) to 251, also by Joseph Addison, "Letters of the Cries of London." Probably the original boards but not further bound in leather as often appears. Volume IV is 454 pp. in length and features No.s 252-321. Volume V is comprised of No.s 322 to 394, featuring works by the usual suspects (Addison, Steele, Budgell, Martyn, Hughes, Hymn, Golding, etc.). Volume VI compiles Nos. 395-472. Volume VII contains No.s 473-555 in 500 pp. Volume VIII is dedicated to Wm. Honeycomb, Esq., attributed to Mr. Budgell, contains No.s 556-633, has 402 pp. and then provides a General Index, lengthy but unpaginated. Authors included the aforementioned editors and contributors Addison and Steele, but also Budgell, Martyn, Hughes, Hymn, Golding and others. This set was in the personal library of Professor Bergen B. Evans, student at University College, born September 19, 1904 ? died February 4, 1978, a Northwestern University professor of English and a television host. It is possible but not known for sure that the set was obtained there at Northwestern University by the previous owner, Richard L. Press, who worked there as an archivist during that time. The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in London and whose initial run lasted only from 1711 to 1712. Eustace Budgell, one of Addison's relatives, and then also the poet John Hughes, too, added a great number of pieces thereto.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Two leatherbound volumes with marbled endpapers and foredges, published in1830 and 1832. Covers shelfworn, with a tear, or scuff, on the front cover of volume two.