CHALMERS (Alexander):

The Projector; A Periodical Paper, Originally Published in Monthly Numbers, from January 1802 to November 1809. By Alexander Chalmers, F. S. A. Second Edition Revised and Corrected.

London: Printed by Nichols, Son, and Bentley..., 1815. 3 volumes. Large 8vo, 223 x 126 mms., pp. vii, 422; viii, 415 [416 blank]; vii, 379 [380 blank], including half-title in each volume, original boards, uncut and unopened, paper labels on spines, which are a bit rubbed and chipped, but generally a good set with firm joints, as issued from the press and never read. Chalmers (1759 - 1834) began his career as journalist in the 1770s, and he edited and contributed to numerous newspapers and journals thereafter. His chief biographer, John Bowyer Nichols noted, "no man ever edited so many works for the Booksellers of London." His models were the periodical essays of Addison, Steele, and Johnson. He uses the word "projector" in the sense of one who devises or innovates, even an entrepreneur, though many of the essays are devoted to traditional essay topics in the long 18th century, e. g., "idleness," "the fair sex," etc.

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Book number: 7543

Catalogue: Periodical

Keywords: periodical essays prose

STEELE (Richard), editor:

The Guardian. A New Edition, Carefully Revised. With Prefaces Historical and Biographical by Alexander Chalmers.

London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington...[et al], 1822. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, pp. [ii], xxxvi, 427 [428 blank]; [ii], iii [iv blank], 456, including title-pages with engraved vignette, contemporary calf, gilt spines, morocco labels; slight wear to binding, but generally a good set. Alexander Chalmers (1759 - 1834) edited over 40 works for the London booksellers; his edition of The Guardian was first published in 1806.

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Book number: 4598

Catalogue: PERIODICAL

Keywords: PERIODICAL essays prose literature