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13th ed, w/ translation of mottoes ; 12° ; [8]-323, [12], [6] ; full leather, 5 raised bands, gold trim ; names excised from title page, 19th century repairs ; Subjects: Adulterers punished by primitive Christians - Anacharsis Corinthian drunkard - Araspus & Panthea - Antipathies - Aristippus - Augustus - Bacon flitch - bion - Burlesque authors - Calamities - Calumny - Cave of Trophonius - Chancery-court - Cherubims - Cleanliness - Vanity of clergymen - Stage Coach - Country gentlemen - Dreams - Drunkenness - Dryden - King Edgar - Egyptians plague of darkness - Eloquence of beggars - Epistolary poetry - Eternity - Faces every man should be pleased with his own - Family madness - Genealogy - Gyges & Aglaus - Hamadryads - Happiness of souls in Heaven - Secret history - Husbands rules for marrying them, by Widow Club - Japis' cure of Aeneas - Jests - Integrity - John a Nokes & John a Stiles - Julian Emperor - Justice the Spartans famous for it - Laughter indecent in any religious assembly - Bantam Ambassador Letters - Eternal life - Life of a lover - Mahometans & cleanliness - Messiah the Jews mistaken - Metaphors - Military education - Church music - Needlework - Isaac Newton's Infinite Space - No, a word of great use to women in love matters - Obscurity - Orators - Ovid - Penelope's Web - Person defined by Lock - Pagan philosophers exalting human nature - Pittacus - Pity - Plato's labour - Play houses improved by storms - Pythagoras - Quacks - Character of a rake - Revenge of a Spanish lady - Pretended discovery made by a Rosicrucian - St. Paul - Satyr - Most offensive scribblers - Seneca - Shalum the Chinese - Socrates - The spleen - Stars - Syncopists - Syracusian prince - Advantages of temper - Thales - How unchaste widows are punished in Torre in Devonshire - Frank Townley - Tully - Vice laborious as virtue -- Custom for widows in West Enborne, Berkshire - Vulcan's dogs - Vision of human misery - Work necessary for women - Xenophon - Queen Zemroude of the Persian Tales ; "illustrations of headpieces from the start of the dedication and text (A1 and B1) and two tailpieces (pp. 292 and 293) identify the offering as the final volume in the first Dublin edition published 'by and for George Grierson' in 1728, a 9th edition, extant as a 12mo, with subscription list in vol. 1, T126250. On A1 is Grierson's hdp of four putti flanking a fountain, with the left side corners both broken off (soon after 1727-28 the left center will be cut off to regularize that side); it also appears broken on a1 of vol. 1 and A1 of vol. 4 of Grierson's edition of The Spectator 1728. The tailpiece on p. 293, with two hairy-headed putti or boys holding an oval with a descending radiant dove is also on the title-page of vol. 1 of Grierson's 1728 edition of The Guardian, T166485. Most of this 12mo issue of The Spectator is shared (including the ornaments noted) with the 8-vol. octavo issue 'by and for' Grierson, called the 11th edition, with title-pages dated 1748 and indicating the presence of translated mottoes (T207854). While the 12mo set has all The Spectators in numerical order, the 8vo begins to selectively print numbers after no. 3 (until which point the editions share settings), leaving out nos. 4, 6, etc. and others up to nos. 199-200; then in Vol. 3 the 8vo prints all left out up to no. 200 and proceeds to print all issues in sequence. The 12mo and 8vo issues share the same settings in the prelims of all volumes and, apart from directional line differences (signatures), throughout the text and indices of vols. 4-8. The appended leaves with supplemental mottoes in English found in [this] 1754 reissue are in Grierson's 1748 reissue (at least the Kansas copy on ECCO) and appear in a 13th edition for Peter Wilson, 1748, 8 vols. 12mo, N24133. These few leaves appended to each volume were printed [by S. Powell] for Philip Crampton, both for separate sale and to supplement his 8-vol. 12th edition of 1737."--James Edward May; binding tight ; unique; VG. Seller Inventory # 007185
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Spectator, Vol.VIII, Vol. 8 : N° 556, ...
Publisher: London [Dublin] : Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand, [Jacob], MDCCLIV (1754) [unrecorded reissue with a false imprint, actually either 1728 (more likely), or 1748 (less so) - see commentary]
Publication Date: 1754
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
Book Type: Book
