THE ADVENTURER
Fourth edition of this collection of all the issues of THE ADVENTURER, a bi-weekly paper featuring some of Bluestockings member Hester Chapone's earliest writing.
Very good.
Price: $250.00
THE ADVENTURER
"We have considered that a paper should consist of pieces of imagination, pictures of life, and disquisitions of literature." – Joseph Warton
Although the authors of THE ADVENTURER wrote anonymously, later scholars have identified the essayists of all 140 pieces. Samuel Johnson, a co-founder of the paper, is unsurprisingly a large contributor; essays by John Hawkesworth, the editor, make up around half the total of the published material. The only woman contributor to this gentleman's paper was Hester Chapone, whose moralistic story "Fidelia" foreshadowed her later success with her LETTERS ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MIND: ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY.
THE ADVENTURER was well-received on publication: in his introduction to a 19th-century edition, Alexander Chalmers notes "the sale in numbers was considerable, and four large editions in volumes were published in less than nine years" (xlii-xliii). This attractive 4th edition set is testament to THE ADVENTURER's sustained popularity.
Read more: English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) item N4790; Alexander Chalmers, The British Essayists.
The Object
London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, W. Strahan, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, S. Crowder, T. Lowndes, R. and J. Dodsley, and J. Coote, 1762. Four duodecimo volumes, 6.5'' x 4''. Contemporary brown speckled calf bindings with five raised bands, red goatskin spine labels. Gilt dentelles. Edges sprinkled red. [4], 308; [8], 292; [6], 298; [4], 298, [2] pages, collated complete. Armorial bookplate of Arthur William English to front pastedowns. Small pencil owner name "Leoni Crawford" to bookplate of volume 2. Volume 4 with contemporary salmon-colored silk bookmark ribbon. Bindings with some edgewear, a few small spots of soil, front joint of volume 1 cracking but firm. Light offsetting to pastedowns, leaves with scattered foxing. Shows nicely.
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