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[Joseph ADDISON & RICHARD STEELE ] - The Spectator or Modern Socrates, where we see a naive portrait of the customs of this century. Translated from the English. Volume One [- seventh].
Amsterdam, Arkstée & Merkus 1746-1750. 7 volumes in-12, contemporary brown calf, spine decorated with five nerves, title and tomaison parts (several torn off caps, some rubbed and/or stained plates).
Portrait of Richard Steele in a 4-volume frontispiece; allegorical frontispiece repeated in 3 other volumes. An eighth volume appeared in 1788.
This London daily, founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, appeared from 1711 to 1712. It was a great success and was read by 6000 Londoners at the time. The collections in volume form were constantly re-edited during the 18th and 19th centuries and translated into French.
Barbershop, IV, 560.
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