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Macmillan and Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1893. Reprint. Hardcover. little bit of bubbling to cloth covers, some rubbing to edges of covers w/tiny tear to bottom spine, bookplate on FFEP, interior hinges just starting to crack, pages lightly toning; 377 pages .

Nabu Press, 2010-01-12. Paperback. Good.

New York: The Roger De Coverly Club. N.D.. Edition De Luxe. Hardcover. Good in decorated boards. Leather peeling from top and bottom of spine. 1,000 copies printed only for subscribers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Macmillan, 1903. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 6" by 4". Not Stated. A collection of essays by founder of 'The Spectator' magazine, Joseph Addison. Edited by English historian, John Richard Green. Green began a religious career in the church and served various cures in London before turning to writing. He wrote several historical works including 'A Short History of the English People'. There are over eighty essays to this volume including Addison's 'Sir Roger De Coverley' series, his Court essays from the Tatler and several more humorous subjects such as humours of the town, the country and fashion. Addison was an essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He wrote several political pieces commissioned by the government and was Under-Secretary of State for some time. Today, Addison is most commonly remembered as an essayist. He began writing essays when his childhood friend, Richard Steele, started 'The Tatler'. Addison made some contributions to 'The Tatler' however, upon its… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. Reprint, a volume in Macmillan's Golden Treasury Series. 16 cm x 11 cm, publisher's dark blue cloth, pp. xxiviii, (378), + (2) pp. catalogue for the Golden Treasury series; portrait of Addison in centre of title page. This volume bears the ownership signature of classical scholar Charles Norris Cochrane, (1889-1945), author of "Christianity and Classical Culture", 1940. George [Parkin] Grant considered "Christianity and Classical Culture" to be "the most important book ever written by a Canadian". Harold Innis referred to it as "the first major Canadian contribution to the intellectual history of the West". Here, Cochrane has made five brief references to the text in pencil on the rear pastedown endpaper, and an ink note to at least one page. Scratch to front cover (6 cm long), else a very good copy. .

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. 12mo, xxviii, 377 pp. Full red calf with gilt supralibros and backstrip,marbled edges and endpapers. Hinges rubbed, upper board and backstrip sunned, internally a fine copy with prize book plate of the Royal Masonic School on front pastedown. § A nice little edition of Addison' essays in a prize binding created for the Royal Masonic School for Boys with the school crest and Masonic motto, Audi Vide Tace (Hear, See, Be Silent), on the upper board. The bookplate inside records that the book was given to one H. Booth, Midsummer 1907, for "school work". Even before the school closed in 1977 the Edwardian structure had become a popular filming location for directors seeking creepy and forbidding institutional settings and the building has featured The Avengers, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and the Harry Potter movies.The editor, English historian John Richard Green, has selected over 80 of… Read More