ADDISON, Joseph (1672-1719) and Richard STEELE (1672-1729), editors. The Spectator, London, for Sam. Buckley, Sold by A. Baldwin, 1711-12, 2°, FIRST EDITION, nos. 1-91, 94-149, 151-233, 235-365, 367-382, 385-387. 389, 391-427, 442-445, 447-544, 545-554, only (of 635), drophead titles (occasional browning), contemporary vellum (rebacked). [Rothschild 3]

細節

ADDISON, Joseph (1672-1719) and Richard STEELE (1672-1729), editors. The Spectator, London, for Sam. Buckley, Sold by A. Baldwin, 1711-12, 2°, FIRST EDITION, nos. 1-91, 94-149, 151-233, 235-365, 367-382, 385-387. 389, 391-427, 442-445, 447-544, 545-554, only (of 635), drophead titles (occasional browning), contemporary vellum (rebacked). [Rothschild 3]

拍品專文

"[The first] 555 numbers constituted vols. I-VII of the collected edition. An eighth volume was added in 1714 ... and in 1715 another series" (Rothschild). Addison contributed about 274 numbers with Steele adding a further 236. Among the other 30 or so contributors were Pope, Swift, Eustace Budgell (1685-1737) and John Hughes (1677-1720). Samuel Johnson's journals, in the way they attempted to shape the manners and moral of his own day, very much followed the course first chartered by the Spectator. .