spectator notes illustrations (19 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 4th Edition. Firmly bound ,decorated purple cloth boards. Fading and dust spotting on cover and spine. Marks on title page. No jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 2nd Edition. Firmly bound, purple cloth boards. Strong fading, scuffing and peeling on cover and spine. Browning on the end papers. No jacket.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of essays on various topics including politics, religion, and literature originally published in the early 18th century. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential works of journalism in the English language.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of essays on various topics including politics, religion, and literature originally published in the early 18th century. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential works of journalism in the English language.

Leder. Zustand: Gut. Stereotype Ed. 17,5cm; XXIII.; 407; Leder. Zustand: Gut gering gebräunt (Innen); Einband (Außen) hat leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Ist etwas bestoßen-berieben; * Die Photos sind original von uns erstellt worden, u.a. erkennbar an einem kleinen weißen Stück Papier im oberen Schnitt. Ab und an verwenden Suchmaschinen Verlagsphotos, bei den Portalen selbst, werden aber nur unsere Originalphotos gezeigt.

First Edition. Very good copy bound in full contemporary elaborately blind-tooled aniline calf with gilt-blocked title and raised bands. All edges gilt; marbled end papers. Remains a well-preserved set overall. Provenance: bookplate of Rev. William Grice. Physical description; vii, [vii]-x, 227, [1] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Subjects; Spectator, The. English literature. 3 Kg.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Various (illustrator). Eleven hardbound volumes of 'The British Essayists', very scarce in the original paper boards. The Spectator was a daily publication of 171112, founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England after they met at Charterhouse School. Eustace Budgell, a cousin of Addison's, also contributed. The stated goal of The Spectator was "to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. to bring philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffeehouses" (No. 10). It recommended that its readers "consider it part of the tea-equipage" (No. 10) and not leave the house without reading it in the morning. One of its functions was to provide readers with educated, topical talking points, and advice in how to carry on conversations and social interactions in a polite manner. In keeping with the values of Enlightenment philosophes of their time, the authors of The Spectator promoted family, marriage, and courtesy. The original Tatler was founded in 1709 by Richard Steele, who used a nom de plume of "Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire", the first such consistently adopted journalistic persona, which adopted in the first person, as it were, the seventeenth-century genre of "characters", as first established in English by Sir Thomas Overbury and soon to be expanded by Lord Shaftesbury's Characteristics (1711). Steele's idea was to publish the news and gossip heard in London coffeehouses, hence the title, and seemingly, from the opening paragraph, to leave the subject of politics to the newspapers, while presenting Whiggish views and correcting middle-class manners, while instructing "these Gentlemen, for the most part being Persons of strong Zeal, and weak Intellects.what to think." To assure complete coverage of local gossip, a reporter was placed in each of the city's popular coffeehouses, or at least such were the datelines: accounts of manners and mores were datelined from White's; literary notes from Will"s; notes of antiquarian interest were dated from the Grecian Coffee House; and news items from St. James"s. In its first incarnation, it was published three times a week. The original Tatler was published for only two years, from April 12, 1709 to January 2, 1711. A collected edition was published in 171011, with the title The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. The Guardian was a short-lived newspaper published in London from 12 March to 1 October 1713. It was founded by Richard Steele and featured contributions from Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell and Ambrose Philips. The bindings are tight and firm with all covers and pages securely attached. There is some wear to the extremities including rubbing to the boards. Internally the pages are generally clean and bright with the occasional handling mark. The pages are rough cut and the occasional one is uncut at the top. Very Good. book.

8vo, padded, patterned silk-covered boards, t.e.g. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by Ross, the entire edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed slipcase, faded on the closed end.

8vo. pp. xxviii, 198, [1 leaf]colophon. 11 hand-coloured plates & hand-coloured vignette portrait on title. A very good copy in original padded floral chintz, t.e.g., others untrimmed (spine darkened), with slipcase. Limited to 1500 numbered copies, signed by the Illustrator Ross. Designed by Richard W.Ellis, printed on Liampre French paper by Aldus Printers, NY, set in monotype Caslon Old Face, illustrations key black printed by Photogravure and Color Company, NY, hand-coloured by Charlize Brakeley, NY, bound by Russell-Rutter Company, NY. LEC Quarto-Millenary 172. Signed by Author(s).

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.

X, 227 Seiten, Fadenheftung, Format 12,5 x 19 cm, reich geprägter Ganzledereinband mit 5 imitierten Bünden. * Die Abbildungen bestehen aus Holzschnitten. Alle 3 Schnittkanten sind goldfarben und mit eingeprägter Ornamentik. Sehr schöne mehrfarbige Vorsatzpapiere, Lesebändchen usw. Der Einband ist derart prachtvoll, daß er möglicherweise nicht verlagsseitig gefertigt wurde.Genau weiß man das nicht, da viele Mitbewerber solche Bücher ohne Abbildungen ins Netz stellen. Erhaltung: Die Rückenkanten sind oben und unten leicht beschabt. Auf dem Titelblatt wurde am oberen Rand ein Besitzername mit scharfem Messer ausradiert. Dafür befindet sich auf dem fliegenden Vorsatz das Ex-Libris eines neueren Besitzers. Sonst keine weiteren Mängel und insgesamt sehr gut erhalten. Sprache: Englisch.

6 Bde., Sedez, ca 2400 S., grüne, geprägte Lederbde., Ebde. berieben u. bestoßen, lichtrandig, Ecken gebogen, Schnitt, Vorsätze u. S. teilw. schwach fleckig, Bd. 6 mit kl. Fehlstellen an Vorderdeckel, Bd. 5: S. 409-423 mit kl. Einriß oben, sonst guter Zustand. Sprache: Englisch.