Miscellaneous works, in verse and prose, of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; In three volumes. Consisting of such as were never before Printed in Twelves. With some account of the life and writings of the author by Mr Tickell
Addison, Joseph
| Publication Date |
1726 |
| Publisher |
Jacob Tonson |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Good+ set |
| SKU |
23759 |
| Notes |
Volumes are surface scuffed with wear to the papers and to the edges. Spine hinges are rubbed but sound though Volume One has split at the top for about an inch. Spine backstrips are rubbed to tails and have some surface loss to heads particularly Volume One were the loss just touches the first gilt decoration. Bindings remains sound. Clean and tight set. |
Description
Hardback. xxxv,271+321+328pp. Three volumes half-bound in calf with marbled papers to boards. Gilt titles and decorations to spines. Joseph Addison was an influential writer of the early eighteenth century maintaining positions in government when the Whigs were in power, founding The Spectator with his friend Richard Steel, and writing plays and poems as well as his many essays. Jacob Tonson, the publisher of these volumes was intimately connected with Addision’s career and end up with the rights to The Spectator as well as the rights to many other significant early English Modern works such as Shakespeare’s plays. Both Addison and Tonson were merbers of the Kit-Cat Club. The inference of the title is that this set of three completes 12 books contains all the works of Addison. This set does not include ‘Remarks on several Parts of Italy’ for example though this set of the ‘Miscellaneous Works’ in three volumes is complete. With a life of Joseph Addison by his fellow Whig poet Thomas Tickell. Includes Poems, Rosamond, Cato, The Drummer, The Haunted House, THe Whig Examiner, extended essays on wars, the Christian religion, Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals, etc. This latter is illustrated with an extensive catalogue of drawings. Other Pieces are illustrated with headers and other decorations between acts, etc.
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