The Spectator. New Edition, Carefully Corrected From the Originals, With Historical, Biographical, and Explanatory Notes, Co... (Total: 8 Items)

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The Spectator. New Edition, Carefully Corrected From the Originals, With Historical, Biographical, and Explanatory Notes, Contents, and a General Index. To Which are Prefixed, The Lives of the Authors - In Eight Volumes. London: J. Bumpus, 1819. Eight octavo volumes (complete). Joseph Addison portrait frontispiece, volume I. Full leather with gilt and morocco labels to spine. Leather worn. Spine ends chipped; almost the whole of the first compartment of volume III is missing. All joints weak; front boards of volumes I and VIII detached, but present. Heavy foxing to front and rear blank pages. Fair condition. The daily Spectator (published in 1711-12 and for a short period in 1714) was an influential publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. The goal of the publication 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." The complete run of the Spectator is contained in these eight volumes. From the library of American film actor Glenn Ford, with his armorial bookplate.