Description
ESSAYS OF RICHARD STEELE ; Selected and Edited by L.E. Steele. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st edition copyright 1902, 2nd Printing 1907. Publisher's "Golden Treasury Series." Leather & Fine Binding (no Dustjacket). Soft brown leather binding with gilt bordering and gilt decoration and titling on spine. Boards are moderately scuffed, scratched with worn edges, particularly vertical spine edges. Spine has 5 raised bands with titling partially chipped and worn. Corners bumped; tip and tail of spine rubbed and worn. The 3 pages edges are bright gilt. Endpapers are a spotted and marbled design. Inside front flyleaf has a few illegible light pencil marks, as does the 3rd flyleaf. Nice, clean frontis portrait of Steele. Hinges and binding square and tight, no loose pages. Text paper is lightly tanned but clean, no marks of damaged pages noted. The volumes has a bound-in gold ribbom marker. 4" x 6" 358 p. Steele (1672-1729) was an Irish writer and politician known for co-founding "The Spectator", the British cultural and political magazine, which dates to 1828, the oldest surviving magazine in the world. The introduction (pp. v-xii) provides background and brief biography. The essays are drawn from the "Tatler", "Spectator, " and "Guardian" with attribution at the end of easy essay (see sample photo).
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