[NEWSPAPERS] ADDISON, Joseph & Richard STEELE. The Spectator, London: for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, [n.d.], 8 volumes, 12°, each volume with engraved frontispiece by Grignion after Hayman and engraved title with vignette (vol. III with worm traces to outer margins of last two leaves, hole to catchword on N11 of vol. 7, vol. VIII wormed in lower part of many leaves, quires H and I the most badly affected with partial loss of up to 5 lines of text), 18th-century speckled calf, spines with raised bands ruled in gilt, crimson morocco lettering-piece and volume number in gilt (lightly rubbed, some joints cracking). With 25 other volumes, all re-issues of 18th-century newspapers, and one 19th-century paper, Cobbett's Two-Penny Trash (volume I, no. 1 - vol. II, no. 12, July 1830 - July 1832) in one volume. (34)

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[NEWSPAPERS] ADDISON, Joseph & Richard STEELE. The Spectator, London: for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, [n.d.], 8 volumes, 12°, each volume with engraved frontispiece by Grignion after Hayman and engraved title with vignette (vol. III with worm traces to outer margins of last two leaves, hole to catchword on N11 of vol. 7, vol. VIII wormed in lower part of many leaves, quires H and I the most badly affected with partial loss of up to 5 lines of text), 18th-century speckled calf, spines with raised bands ruled in gilt, crimson morocco lettering-piece and volume number in gilt (lightly rubbed, some joints cracking). With 25 other volumes, all re-issues of 18th-century newspapers, and one 19th-century paper, Cobbett's Two-Penny Trash (volume I, no. 1 - vol. II, no. 12, July 1830 - July 1832) in one volume. (34)

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