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Days with Sir Roger de Coverly, Reprint from The Spectator. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson
by Addison, Joseph; Steele, Richard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London and New York: MacMillan and Co., 1893 Printed by R. and R. Clark, Edinburgh. Hard cover Crown 8vo., in original green publisher's trade cloth with pictorial gilt to front board and spine, 158 pp. No dust jacket. The satirical persona of landed country squire Sir Roger de Coverly was the invention of Addison and Steele, and premiered in The Spectator during 1711. Irish illustrator Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) is credited with the cover design of this volume as well as the fifty illustrations within. His delicate pen and ink style of illustration was particularly suited to the depiction of characters from the "Queen Ann Revival," which harkened back sentimentally to pre-industrial Britain. Condition: Very Good. Minor wear to corners. Spine somewhat cocked. Light scattered foxing within does not detract. Old ink gift inscription on ffep. dated 1893. Old bookseller's label (small) insufficiently removed from bottom corner of front pastedown. The pictorial bookplate of Dr. Ann Ridler (1935-2018) appears on the front pastedown: Oxford-educated scholar, linguist and publisher of extensive bibliographical works on the nineteenth century novelist, George Borrow.. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Hugh Thomson.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8156
- Title
- Days with Sir Roger de Coverly, Reprint from The Spectator. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson
- Author
- Addison, Joseph; Steele, Richard
- Illustrator
- Hugh Thomson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1893
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Now entering our eighteenth year, Dark and Stormy Night Books is an online bookstore carrying Rare, Antiquarian and other interesting finds. Alasdair and Alexandra Johnson, Proprietors. Alasdair, from Edinburgh, Scotland has a colorful heritage including the salvage of shipwrecks off the English coast, and transportation of an eighteenth-century revolutionary relative to Australia. When not swashbuckling through the world of electronics and other gizmos as a lad, he scared himself silly with science-fiction, ghost stories and gothic novels. His partner, Alexandra, is a third-generation book dealer, whose family had the smallest of small-press workshops in the family barn. She is a graduate in history and art history from Bowdoin College, with a particular interest in the Far East and the China trade, the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, and the British Arts & Crafts Movement. She also spent some years working for a nationally known early-American antiques dealer. They make their home in historic Newburyport, on the Massachusetts coast. Visit our website: www.darkandstormynightbooks.com
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