Essays Biographical Critical and Historical illustrative of the Tatler Spectator and Guardian. In 3 vols.

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London 1805. Small 8vo. Quarter cream paper spines on papered boards (chipped and rubbed but neat and sound). Frontispieces. Uncut and unopened. Previous owner's armorial bookplate in each volume. Very good set. 1st edition. NOTE: Nathan Drake (1766-1836) literary essayist and physican. This set includes essays on the commencement of the Tatler; on Richard Steele; on Addison and Drake's observations on the effects of the Tatler Spectator and Guardian on Taste Literature and Morals of the Age.