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Creator:
Addison, Joseph, 1672–1719
Title(s):
Sir Roger de Coverly / by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele & Eustace Budgell ; edited by John Hampden, with wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith.
Published/Created:
London : Folio Society, 1967.
Physical Description:
158 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
MSS 17 Moss no. 85
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View finding aid for the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"The illustrations consist of a frontispiece portrait of Addison and Steele and 30 wood-engraved head pieces [Bain nos. 85-115], one used at the opening of each essay. Shirley Smith also engraved a decorative rule, which is used beneath each head piece and on the title page."--Moss.
"Richard Shirley Smith's first book project for The Folio Society."--Bain.
Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 85
Bain, I. Wood engravings of Richard Shirley Smith, 85-115
BAC: British Art Center copy bound by W. and J. Mackay in quarter brown buckram, marbled paper boards, and green end papers. In a brown slip case.
BAC: From the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith.
Subject Terms:
Folio Society -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1967.
Contributors:
Shirley Smith, Richard, engraver.
Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729.
Budgell, Eustace, 1686-1737.
Hampden, John, 1898-1974.
Folio Society (London, England)
Moss, Roger W., 1940- former owner.
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