addison joseph richard steele eds (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Number of Volumes: 2 Two volumes. Full calf bindings with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, and gilt board-edges (simple dentelles). Leather is damaged at the corners, and cracked at the connections to the spine. Leather generally has the patina of age, with a little scuffing and some cracking vertically along the spine. Bookplate of Erastus Fitch Brown with other ownership information on pastedowns of both volumes, including stamps of "G.N." Pages are in good condition, with foxing but without marginalia. These volumes are compilations of writing gleaned from newspapers, mostly as essays about ideas, manners, and social issues. Volume I includes selections on abstinence, adulterers, anxieties, beauty, blindness, conjugal affections, dancing, death, dueling and much more. Volume II contains selections on envy, fame, future state, gaming, grief, happiness, humor, inconstancy, justice, labor modesty, passion, self-denial, time, and much more. It is predominantly prose, although there are some verse pieces, including verse quoted in prose. Hardcover, good condition. Volume I: 346, volume II: 336 pages, 16mo.

Hardcover. Zustand: 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.

2 vols. Engraved frontispieces and extra title pages, 9 x 5.75", full calf, 459pp, 444pp; 244pp with indexes, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and worn, bottom of spine on volume 2 chipped, spine labels chipping with some missing altogether, hinges loose, inner hinges cracking, some foxing and toning but altogether a decent set. Volume Two is THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS; Containing the Spectator.The Tatler and Guardian.