The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison. In Four Volumes

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head, Over Against Katharine-Street in the Strand, 1721. Full Leather. Quarto. Very Good. Item #32858

4 volumes. Pp. [xxiii], 559; [viii], 583; 624; 594, [15] - Names of Subscribers. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait engraved by G. Vertue after G. Kneller, with added tipped-on engraved portrait by previous owner to verso of front blank, 6 engraved plates of medals, many large engraved head-pieces, initials, tail-pieces, text illustrations. Contemporary wine-coloured morocco, 5 raised bands, gilt decoration in spine compartments, gilt-stamped double spine labels, marbled endpapers in 18th-century French curl pattern, all edges gilt, Spines darkened, with head of volume II only chipped with headband loose, very occasional offsetting in the text, otherwise a very good, very handsome set of the large paper issue as characterized by the engraved headpiece on p. 3 of vol. 1. ESTC T89167.

Price (CAD): $5,500.00

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