The Spectator (Six-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
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.
Author: edited with an introduction and notes by George A. Aitken
Format: Hardback
Published: 1111, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. - The New Universal Library
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.