Sir Roger de Coverly

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Sir Roger de Coverly
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Sir Roger de Coverly

Joseph Addison
Edition year 1967
Binding Buckram
Illustrator Richard Shirley Smith
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 160
Dimensions 22.6 × 14.8 cm

Edition details

Sir Roger de Coverly by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele and Eustace Budgell. Edited by John Hampden. Frontispiece portrait and 30 head-piece wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. Quarter bound in brown buckram with marbled paper boards. Green endleaves. Brown slipcase. 22.6x14.8cm. 160pp.

About the book

Sir Roger de Coverley is one of the most memorable fictional characters created in Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's influential periodical The Spectator. A kindly, eccentric and somewhat old-fashioned country gentleman, Sir Roger appears in a series of essays depicting his home, friends, servants and attitudes toward the changing world around him. Through his character, Addison and Steele offer a humorous but affectionate portrait of early eighteenth-century English country life. The essays combine gentle satire with observations on manners, politics, religion and society, making Sir Roger one of the enduring figures of English periodical literature.

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