1905 Sir Roger de Coverly

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

Bound by Lauriat of Boston.

‘Sir Roger de Coverly’ was a fictional character created for the newspaper ‘The Spectator’, as a social observer of the time, and to offer structure to the essays in the publication, a comical character who went of various adventures across society. 

‘The Spectator’ was a daily publication than ran from 1711 to 1712, created by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. It was widely read despite its modest circulation, including being read by James Madison when he was a teenager.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, nine plates, in-text illustrations, and head- and tail-pieces, by H. M. Brock. Collated, complete.