The Spectator, A New Edition, Carefully Revised, In Six Volumes

All six volumes of the edition. Rubbing to all volumes.  Edited by Alexander Chalmers, A.M. Paper labels with title are fading and stained, if intact. Tight, square bindings. Green cloth covers have bumped covers and both soiling and rubbing. Volume two has a laceration to the spine, evident in picture. Clean, unmarked pages. Nos. 1-555 (v. 1-6, p. 206)--originally issued Mar. 1, 1711-Dec. 6, 1712; nos. 556-635 (v. 6, p. 207-547) June 18-Dec. 20, 1714. The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England, lasting from 1711 to 1712. It was an influential middle-class, Whig publication, read extensively in the American colonies. Its aim was to "enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality."