"Price Two-pence" first appears at the bottom of No. CCCCXLIV.
Inserted are two legal papers containing contracts and agreements between the publisher and Addison and Steele.
There was a ninth volume, from Monday, Jan. 3, 1715, through August 5, a spurious continuation by William Bond.
The present copy was formerly in the libraries of Lord Hope and the Earl of Munster.
ADDISON, Joseph.—Cato. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesty's Servants. By Mr. Addison. [six lines in Latin from Seneca] London: Printed for J. Tonson at Shakeſpear's Head over-againſt Catherine-Street in the Strand. MDCCXIII. 4to, blue straight-grain morocco, Janseniste, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition. A-I in fours, half-title on A1, title on A2. The Prologue is by Pope, the Epilogue by Dr. Garth.
ADDISON, Joseph.—Poems on Several Occasions. With a Dissertation upon The Roman Poets. By Mr. Addison. London: Printed for E. Curll . . . 1719. [Second title] A Dissertation upon the moſt celebrated Roman Poets. Written originally in Latin by Joseph Addiſon, Eſq; Made English by Christopher Hayes, Eſq; London, Printed for E. Curll. . . . M DCC XVIII. 8vo, red morocco, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition. Portrait by Van der Gucht after Kneller and a plate by E. Kirkall after La Vergne.
The signatures and pagination of the Poems and the Dissertation are different.
ADDISON, Joseph.—The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a new edition, with notes by Richard Hurd, D.D., Lord Bishop of Worcester. London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies. . . . 1811. Royal 8vo, six volumes, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.