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Days with Sir Roger de Coverley : reprint from the Spectator / with illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1892 Addison
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- English essays.
- Drawing, British.
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1892.
- Physical Description:
- x, 110 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- [3d ed.]
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Macmillan, 1892.
- Summary:
- Purportedly "an English squire of Queen Anne's reign, Sir Roger exemplified the values of an old country gentleman, and was portrayed as lovable but somewhat ridiculous ('rather beloved than esteemed,' Spectator no. 2), making his Tory politics seem harmless but silly. He was said to be the grandson of the man who invented the English country dance."--Wikipedia.com
- Contents:
- Sir Roger's family.
- Mr. William Wimble.
- The picture gallery.
- A country Sunday.
- The widow.
- The chase.
- The county assizes.
- The Spectator's return to town.
- Notes:
- Roger de Coverley (1851 ed.) By the Spectator [i.e. by J. Addison, assisted by Sir. R. Steele, and E. Budgell]--Cf. Brit. Museum.
- Illustrated half-title, initials and head-pieces.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in dark green cloth with sketches of a sun, plant and woman in gold. Title and authors name are also in gold.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: Dr. I. Starr, 1959.
- OCLC:
- 1952173
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