Notes upon the twelve books of paradise lost. Collected from the Spectator

London: J. and R. Tonson, 1738. 12mo. pp. 144; later quarter calf over printed boards replicating a marbled pattern. A very good copy with a small dampstain affecting the bottom of several leaves. Addison was a famous late seventeenth and early eighteenth century literary critic and politician, noted for his association with the Whig party in England (Encyclopedia Brittanica, Joseph Addison). (Inventory #: 53449)