The Guardian [VINTAGE 1982][FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Stephens, John Calhoun (editor)

Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1982

Beschreibung

Fine unread condition dark blue linen boards and gold spine lettering enclosed within a red block border, enclosed in a fine condition illustrated dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Text and Index. "In 1713, soon after publication of the Spectator had come to an end, its place on the breakfast tables of Queen Anne's London was taken by the Guardian. Richard Steele, continuing in the new paper the blend of learning, wit, and moral instruction that had proved so attractive in the Tatler and Spectator, was the editor and principal writer; in the 175 numbers of the Guardian he included 53 essays by Joseph Addison, as well as contributions by Alexander Pope, George Berkeley, and several others, some of whom doubtless transmitted their papers through the famous lion's-head letterbox that Addison had erected in Button's coffeehouse. "These papers," as John C. Stephens writes in the introduction to this edition of the Guardian, "helped to form and to shape the morals and manners of countless generations in Britain and abroad." With this edition Richard Steele's Guardian can take its place by The Spectator in a critically edited format for modern scholars. John C. Stephens prepared the edition from the original printings of the papers. He has fully annotated and indexed the contents and has written a comprehensive introduction discussing especially the authorship of the individual essays." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 008593

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Guardian [VINTAGE 1982][FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1982
• Sprache: Englisch
• Bindung: Hardcover
• Ausgabe: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine