Accession number
PML 143945-48
Published
London : Printed and to be deliver'd to subscribers, by Charles Lillie ... and John Morphew ..., 1710-1711.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
1st collected ed. (also issued in 12mo, see NCBEL), containing nos. 1 through 271.
Advertisement for a book published by Morphew: v. 3, final leaf.
By Richard Steele and Joseph Addison, with other contributors.
Index included in each volume.
Isaac Bickerstaff is a pseudonym.
List of subscribers in v. 1 and 2.
Originally published in serial form as The Tatler (running title in this monographic edition).
Signatures: v. 1: A-2D⁸ 2E²[-2E2, a blank?]; v. 2: A-2F⁸ 2G⁴; v. 3: A⁴B-2H⁸; v. 4: A⁶ B-2G⁴ 2H² 2I⁴ [includes final blank leaf].
Steele and Addison were no longer associated with The Tatler after no. 271.
Vol. 1 has imprint date of 1709 (first year of serial publication).
Vol. 1: xiv, 413, [5]; v. 2: xvi, 450, [6]; v. 3: vii, [1], 470, [10]; v. 4: [12], 468, [8] p.
Advertisement for a book published by Morphew: v. 3, final leaf.
By Richard Steele and Joseph Addison, with other contributors.
Index included in each volume.
Isaac Bickerstaff is a pseudonym.
List of subscribers in v. 1 and 2.
Originally published in serial form as The Tatler (running title in this monographic edition).
Signatures: v. 1: A-2D⁸ 2E²[-2E2, a blank?]; v. 2: A-2F⁸ 2G⁴; v. 3: A⁴B-2H⁸; v. 4: A⁶ B-2G⁴ 2H² 2I⁴ [includes final blank leaf].
Steele and Addison were no longer associated with The Tatler after no. 271.
Vol. 1 has imprint date of 1709 (first year of serial publication).
Vol. 1: xiv, 413, [5]; v. 2: xvi, 450, [6]; v. 3: vii, [1], 470, [10]; v. 4: [12], 468, [8] p.
Description
4 v. ; 23 cm
Provenance
Provenance (documented in note on flyleaf): John Selwyn (an original subscriber); Mary Selwyn (his widow); Mary Townshend (her granddaughter); H.G. Townshend (her nephew, with his armorial bookplate); Harriet Rice (his niece); William Bazeley (who wrote the note, with his bookplate); from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
18th-century red morocco, tooled in gilt.
Classification
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