MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, IN VERSE AND PROSE, OF THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, ESQ. With Some Account Of The Life And Writings Of The Author, by Mr. Tickell. Volume II.
London: Jacob Tonson, 1726. 1st edition. Leather. 1st edition, 1726. A Good + copy. 12mo., 321 pp., bound in full leather with 6 compartment gilt decorated spine. Overall wear and rubbing to leather. Spine is dulled. Tips and edges rubbed through in spots. End papers tanned with some scattered light foxing throughout. Very small loss on title and first page. Binding is solid with exposed cord. Text appears unmarked. Good +. Item #37715
Contains Cato, a Tragedy, written by Joseph Addison (with a prologue by Alexander Pope and epilogue by Samuel Garth), debuted in 1713 and depicts the final hours of the Roman Stoic Marcus Porcius Cato as he resists Julius Caesar's tyranny.
Also contains Poemata, The Drummer, The Late Tryal and Conviction of Count Tariff and The Whig-Examiner.
Price: $50.00