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Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1672 - 1719

Biography

Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English author and politician

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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

British Theatrical and Literary Prints

 Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 33
Abstract:

British Theatrical and Literary Prints is a collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century engravings and etchings depicting scenes and characters from 267 plays and stories by 112 authors that were published in England and Ireland during those two centuries. The prints are generally small in format—octavo or quarto in size—and most were extracted from publications.

Dates: 1711-1880, bulk 1770-1820
Found in: Lewis Walpole Library > British Theatrical and Literary Prints

Letter : London, to Ambrose Philips, [1704] Mar 10

 Part of Collection — Box 33: [Barcode: 39002137225091], Folder: GROUP 614, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS.

Dates: [1704] Mar 10
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > General Collection manuscript miscellany > A > ADDISON, JOSEPH, 1672-1719

Letter : to Edward Wortley Montague, 1717 Sep 28

 Part of Collection — Box 33: [Barcode: 39002137225091], Folder: GROUP 614, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS with note on verso of last page, possibly in Montague's hand, "Reasons for my being recalled."

With five engraved portraits of Addison.

Dates: 1717 Sep 28
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > General Collection manuscript miscellany > A > ADDISON, JOSEPH, 1672-1719

Letter : Whitehall, to an unidentified recipient, 1708 Apr 27

 Part of Collection — Box 33: [Barcode: 39002137225091], Folder: GROUP 614, F-3
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS to "Dear Sir."

Dates: 1708 Apr 27
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > General Collection manuscript miscellany > A > ADDISON, JOSEPH, 1672-1719

Manchester papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS fc.37
Abstract: The papers contain correspondence, copies of treaties, speeches and credentials, orders, memoranda, reports, newsletters and other papers mostly relating to diplomatic, political and military affairs in western Europe during the War of the Spanish Succession. In addition to documenting Manchester's missions to the republic of Venice and the court of France, the papers provide much detail on shifting relations among the northern powers, the break between France and England following the...
Dates: 1697-1737
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Manchester papers

Note : to an unidentified recipient, [1716] Feb 9

 Part of Collection — Box 33: [Barcode: 39002137225091], Folder: GROUP 614, F-4
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ANS to "Dear Sr."

Dates: [1716] Feb 9
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > General Collection manuscript miscellany > A > ADDISON, JOSEPH, 1672-1719

Sir Roger de Coverly by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele & Eustace Budgell. Edited by John Hampden, with wood-engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. London: The Folio Society, 1967., 1967

 Item — Volume Moss no. 85: Series 2
Call Number: MSS 17 , Series II
Scope and Contents: Set in 11-point monotype Baskerville and printed by Richard Clay at the Chaucer Press, Bungay, Suffolk. 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. Bound by W. and J. Mackay in quarter brown buckram, marbled paper boards, green end papers. Brown slip...
Dates: 1967
Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > Roger W. Moss Collection of Manuscript, Original Art and Printed Material by and about Richard Shirley Smith > Publications Designed or Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith