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Days with Sir Roger de Coverly, Reprint from The Spectator. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson
by Addison, Joseph; Steele, Richard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London and New York: MacMillan and Co., 1893 Printed by R. and R. Clark, Edinburgh. Hard cover Crown 8vo., in original green publisher's trade cloth with pictorial gilt to front board and spine, 158 pp. No dust jacket. The satirical persona of landed country squire Sir Roger de Coverly was the invention of Addison and Steele, and premiered in The Spectator during 1711. Irish illustrator Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) is credited with the cover design of this volume as well as the fifty illustrations within. His delicate pen and ink style of illustration was particularly suited to the depiction of characters from the "Queen Ann Revival," which harkened back sentimentally to pre-industrial Britain. Condition: Very Good. Minor wear to corners. Spine somewhat cocked. Light scattered foxing within does not detract. Old ink gift inscription on ffep. dated 1893. Old bookseller's label (small) insufficiently removed from bottom corner of front pastedown. The pictorial bookplate of Dr. Ann Ridler (1935-2018) appears on the front pastedown: Oxford-educated scholar, linguist and publisher of extensive bibliographical works on the nineteenth century novelist, George Borrow.. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Hugh Thomson.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8156
- Title
- Days with Sir Roger de Coverly, Reprint from The Spectator. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson
- Author
- Addison, Joseph; Steele, Richard
- Illustrator
- Hugh Thomson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1893
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We work to promote the significance of a wide variety of ideas, from whatever era they might originate. We celebrate, and work to preserve, the artistry of the printed page, the handwritten word, and the craftsmanship of the hand-made object in today's virtual, digital world.
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- Cloth
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