Collation: I. Title with ornament, A1 (verso blank). "To Mr. Maynwaring," signed Isaac Bickerstaff, A2. Nos. 1-157 (single leaves), from Tuesday, April 12, 1709 to Tuesday, April 11, 1710. Index, two leaves, pages i-iv, ending with six lines of Errata and "[The Price of theſe two Sheets, Three Pence.]" Number 1 reads "The Tatler. By Iſaac Bickerſtaff, Eſq; [Line in Latin] Tueſday, April 12, 1709. . . . [Verso] London: Printed for the Author, 1709." The verso of Number 5 reads: "Sold by John Morphew near Stationers-Hall; where Advertiſements are taken in." Numbers 33 and 36-38 read: "The Tatler. By Mrs. Jenny Diſtaff, Half Siſter to Mr. Bickerſtaff."
II. Title with ornament, A1 (verso blank). "To Edward Wortley Mountague Eſq," signed Isaac Bickerstaff, with the Note: "The Dedication foregoing belongs to the Second Volume of Tatlers in Octavo; which begins with No 51, and ends with No 114," A2 recto. "To the Honourable William Lord Cowper, Baron of Wingham," signed Richard Steele, with the Note: "The foregoing Dedication belongs to the Third Volume of Tatlers in Octavo, which begins with No 115, and ends with No 189," A2 verso—and B1 (verso), "To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Hallifax," signed Richard Steele, dated "From the Hovel at Hampton-wick, April 7, 1711," and with the Note: "This Dedication belongs to the Fourth Volume of Tatlers in Octavo, which begins with No 190, and ends with No 271." "The Preface," B2. Pages i-viii. Numbers 158-271, Thursday, April 13, 1710 to Tuesday, January 2, 1711. Index, three leaves, pages i-vi, ending "[The Price of theſe Three Sheets and a Half, Six Pence.]"
STEELE, Sir Richard.—[First page] Numb. I. The Guardian. [Line from Martial] To be Continued Every Day. Thurſday, March 12, 1713. [Imprint] London: Printed for J. Tonſon in the Strand; and Sold by A. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane. 1713. Folio, green vellum, gilt sides, uncut edges.
The complete file of The Guardian as originally issued, clxxv numbers, from Thursday, March 12, 1713 to Thursday, October 1, 1713.
"Price Two Pence" appears on Number I and continues; "Where Advertisements are taken in" is added to the imprint on Number II, and "To be Continued every Day" is not found after that number.
From the libraries of Lord Hope and the Earl of Munster.
STEELE, Sir Richard.—[First page] Numb. I. The Englishman. Being the Sequel of the Guardian. To be Publiſhed every Tueſday, Thurſday, and Saturday. Tueſday, October 6, 1713. [Latin quotation] [Verso.] London: Printed for Sam Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little Britain; where Advertiſements will be taken in. [Numb. XXIII.—And Sold by Ferd. Burleigh at the Weſt-End of St. Paul's.] Folio, green vellum, gilt sides, uncut edges. Bound with "The Guardian."
A Whig publication in which Steele combated the arguments of Swift, Bolingbroke, and Atterbury in The Examiner.
Volume I, Numbers I-LVI, from Tuesday, October 6, 1713 to Thursday, February 11, 1714. Each number is a single sheet. "Price Two-pence" appears at the bottom of each leaf on the recto.
STEELE, Sir Richard.—[First page] Numb. I. The Lover. Written in Imitation of the Tatler. [Line from Horace] To be Publiſhed every Tueſday, Thurſday, and Saturday. Thurſday, February 25, 1714. [Verso] London, Printed: And Sold by Ferd. Burleigh, in Amen-Corner. Where Advertiſements are taken in. Folio, green vellum, gilt sides, uncut edges. Bound with "The Guardian."