The Spectator, in Eight Volumes. To Which is Prefixed Sketches of the Lives of the Authors. In This Edition Each Paper is Marked with the Author's Name: and Explanatory Notes are Added. Edinburgh: Printed for Mess"rs Bell & Bradfute, Dickson, Greece, Mudie, Hill, Elder, Brown, Fairbairn, and J. Watson & Co. Undated, but circa 1770s.
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Size: 108 x 185 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[(1), t.p., i-xvi, 2pp., pp.9-327, (1)]; [(2), t.p., 2pp., pp.7-338, (1)]; [(3), t.p., 2pp., pp.5-321, (1)]; [(1), t.p., 4pp., pp.7-292, (1)]; [(1), t.p., 3pp., pp.7-294, (2)]; [(1), t.p., iii-v, pp.7-307, (2)]; [(1), t.p., iii-vi, pp.7-328pp., (2)]; [(1), t.p., iii-vii, 1pp., pp.9-286, (1)].
Full brown calf bindings with red tooled labels in compartments to the spines between raised bands. Bindings rubbed and scuffed. All boards attached with rubbing along joints, some joints and hinges starting or cracked. Shelf and edge wear. Page edges dulled. Ink inscription to front blank in all volumes, ink transferred onto some pastedowns opposite partially. Text blocks very clean with light toning and occasional foxing.
