No title, A1-A2, and B1-B3 (verso blank). Pages 1-9.
ADAMSON, John.—Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Luis de Camoens. By John Adamson. . . . London: printed for Longman . . . MDCCCXX. Royal 8vo, two volumes, citron levant morocco, back and sides in gold and green mosaic, gilt top, uncut edges, by David.
Large paper copy, with nine portraits of Camoens, three in two states, proofs before and after letters, and nine illustrations after the designs of Harding and others, proofs on India paper. All but two of these plates are inserted.
ADDISON, Joseph.—A Poem to his Majesty [William III.], Preſented to the Lord Keeper. By Mr. Addison, of Mag. Coll. Oxon. London: Printed for Jacob Tonſon, at the Judge's-Head near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleetſtreet, MDCXCV. Folio, figured silk. Bound with Yalden's "Conquest of Namur," 1695.
First edition.
Collation: Title, A1 (verso blank). Dedication to Sir John Sommers, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, A2. Poem, B1-D1 in twos. Pages 1-10.
ADDISON and STEELE. [First page] Numb. I The Spectator. [Two lines from Horace] To be Continued every Day. Thurſday, March 1, 1711. [Two columns of text] [At the bottom of the verso] London: Printed for Sam. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little Britain: and Sold by A. Baldwin in Warwick Lane. Folio, two volumes, green vellum, gilt sides, uncut edges.
The complete file of the "Spectator" as originally issued in numbers, seven volumes, Nos. I-DLV from Thursday, March 1, 1711, through Saturday, December 6, 1712, every day except Sunday. It was resumed on Friday, June 18, 1714 and published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays through No. 635 (misprinted 636) Monday, December 20, 1714. The numbering of Vol. VIII. is incorrect: 578 is misprinted 579; 584-586, 590-592, 596-598 misprinted 585-587, 591-593, 597-599; 602-604 misprinted 603-605, there is no 607, and 620 is misprinted 610.
Volume VIII. has the imprint: "London: Printed by S. Buckley in Amen Corner, and J. Tonson in the Strand; where Advertisements will be taken in." The first two numbers (556 and 557) contain the announcement: "To be continued every Monday, Wedneſday, and Friday."
Each number consists of one folio leaf, similar to Number I described above, with a classical quotation varying each day. The words "To be Continued every Day" were not printed after the first number, and in No. XVI the imprint on the verso was increased by the addition: "where Advertiſements are taken in; as also by Charles Lillie, Perfumer, at the Corner of Beauford-Buildings in the Strand." Nos. XVII and CCCCLXXIV do not contain the addition, and it is discontinued from CCCCXCIX to the end of Volume VII.