The Spectator (Six-Volume Set)
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Faded spines. Bumping on corners. Bindings remain tight. Clean text.
A foundational work of English periodical literature and social criticism, "The Spectator" presents the celebrated daily essays of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, originally published between 1711 and 1714, which shaped public taste, manners, and morality across Georgian England with wit, elegance, and a civilising intelligence that influenced every essayist who followed. This six-volume Routledge edition, edited with scholarly introduction and notes by George A. Aitken, places the complete run of papers within their historical and literary context, offering modern readers full access to one of the defining documents of Augustan prose style and polite culture.
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Faded spines. Bumping on corners. Bindings remain tight. Clean text.
A foundational work of English periodical literature and social criticism, "The Spectator" presents the celebrated daily essays of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, originally published between 1711 and 1714, which shaped public taste, manners, and morality across Georgian England with wit, elegance, and a civilising intelligence that influenced every essayist who followed. This six-volume Routledge edition, edited with scholarly introduction and notes by George A. Aitken, places the complete run of papers within their historical and literary context, offering modern readers full access to one of the defining documents of Augustan prose style and polite culture.
