The Guardian
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The Guardian
University Press of Kentucky, c1982
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Originally published in 175 daily no., London, Mar. 12-Oct. 1, 1713 by Steele, Addison, and others
Basic copy-text for the 175 no. in this ed. is the set or original folio half-sheets in the Lefferts Pope Collection in the Houghton Library, Harvard University which have been compared and collated with original sheets elsewhere
Includes bibliographical references and index
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In 1713, soon after publication of the Spectator had come to an end, its place on breakfast tables of Queen Anne's London was taken by the Guardian. Richard Steele, continuing in the new paper the blend of learning, wit, and moral instruction that had proved so attractive in the Tatler and Spectator, was the editor and principal writer; in the 175 numbers of the Guardian he included 53 essays by Joseph Addison, as well as contributions by Alexander Pope, George Berkeley, and several others, some of whom doubtless transmitted their papers through the famous lion's head letterbox that Addison had erected in Button's coffeehouse. "These papers," as John C. Stephens writes in the introduction to his edition of the Guardian, "helped to form and to shape the morals and manners of countless generations in Britain and abroad."
This first modern edition of the Guardian was prepared from the original printing of the papers, is fully annotated and indexed, and includes a comprehensive introduction discussing especially the authorship of the individual essays.
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