The spectator, with notes and illustrations

[Addison, Joseph, & Richard Steele]

Published by Thomas Nelson, and Peter Brown, Edinburgh, 1831

About this Item

12mo, 6 volumes; portrait frontispiece; original full green muslin, printed paper labels on spines; spines a touch sunned, a few corners lightly bumped, the cloth cockled in places, frontispiece and edges with the occasional foxing, text uncut, with the later volumes largely unopened, very good. Pages 281-282 and 381-382 of vol. 1 have been transposed due to binder's error. Armorial bookplates of Augustus Terry Clarke. An early example of a publisher's full cloth binding. Addison and Steele contributed the bulk of the essays in the series, though some items are attributed to others, including Pope. Despite the subtitle, "with notes and illustrations," whose wording is repeated on the spine labels, there are no notes in this edition, and only one illustration, the frontispiece in volume I, an engraved portrait of Addison, after Sir Godfrey Kneller's painting and engraved by William Finden.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The spectator, with notes and illustrations
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson, and Peter Brown, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 1831
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature