Author: Drake, Nathan
Title: Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian. In Three Volumes. [with] Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809. In Two Volumes
Description: London, Suttaby, 1810. First Edition. Hardcover. Two complete sets in five volumes. 470pp; 352pp; 401pp. 499pp; 503pp. Bright red straight-grain morocco tooled in blind and gold on the sides, spines in compartments with gold and blind decorations and gilt lettering, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispieces. With the armorial bookplates of Edward Huth of Wykehurst Park (son of merchant banker and prominent bibliophile Henry Huth) on the front pastedown endpapers. Spines uniformly darkened, light wear to corner tips and edges (with the exception of one volume that shows heavier wear to upper corner tips), one volume does not have tissue paper on the frontispiece. Overall, two extremely nice sets with a fascinating provenance. ; 16mo. .

Keywords: BIBLIOPHILES, FINE BINDINGS, non-fiction, SPECTATORS, ENGLAND, 1800s Antiquarian


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