The Spectator (6 volumes)

The Spectator; A New Edition, Carefully Revised, In Six Volumes; With Prefaces Historical And Biographical

 Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, Sir; Alexander Chalmers

D. Appleton & Company, 1853.

6 volume set. Bound in publisher's cloth. Covers faded, spines sunned. Hardcover.  Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Nos. 1-555 (v. 1-6, p. 206)--originally issued Mar. 1, 1711-Dec. 6, 1712; nos. 556-635 (v. 6, p. 207-547) June 18-Dec. 20, 1714.  The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England, lasting from 1711 to 1712. It was an influential middle-class, Whig publication, read extensively in the American colonies. Its aim was to "enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality." 

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