Essays and Tales: From The Spectator
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Thomas Gibson, Thomas Gainsborough and Nathaniel Dance-Holland. Sir Roger de Coverley, the coffee-house, the club, the ladies' fan drill, and the essays that taught English prose how to be conversational. Addison and Steele put out The Spectator daily in 1711 — a page or two, a penny, no politics, addressed to a nation that had just discovered it liked reading over breakfast. Johnson told anyone who wanted a good style to give his days and nights to Addison. Fifty-nine plates, from Hogarth's Shrimp Girl to Gainsborough's Watering Place, carry the same coffee-house world of actors, wits, and ordinary faces into the book.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Thomas Gibson, Thomas Gainsborough and Nathaniel Dance-Holland. Sir Roger de Coverley, the coffee-house, the club, the ladies' fan drill, and the essays that taught English prose how to be conversational. Addison and Steele put out The Spectato...
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Joseph Addison (1672–1719) was an English essayist, poet, and statesman. He contributed to The Tatler and co-founded The Spectator with Richard Steele, where his essays and tales helped establish the periodical essay as a literary form. His other works include the tragedy Cato and the travelogue Remarks on Italy.
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) was an English essayist, poet, and statesman. He contributed to The Tatler and co-founded The Spectator with Richard Steele, where his essays and tales helped establish the periodical essay as a literary form. His other works include the tragedy Cato and the travelogue ...
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