Sir Roger de Coverley and the Spectator’s Club (1902)

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No character of the eighteenth-century essay is better loved than Sir Roger de Coverley, the old-fashioned Worcestershire baronet whose portrait Addison and Steele drew, paper by paper, in The Spectator of 1711-1712 : Sir Roger at church, at the assizes, in Westminster Abbey, in love. This edition gathers the Coverley papers and the Spectator’s Club essays. Facsimile of the 1902 edition.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1902 edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.