17th/18th-century Anglo-Irish writer, playwright, and politician

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Buildings and alumni of Charterhouse, London and Surrey. Colour lithograph by Beynon & Company after [H. Hale].

John Dryden, Samuel Garth, John Vanbrugh, and Richard Steele. Mezzotint by J. Simon after Sir G. Kneller.

Philosophers and writers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

A letter from the facetious doctor Andrew Tripe [pseud.] [i.e. W. Wagstaffe], at Bath, to the venerable Nestor Ironside. With an account of the reception Mr. Ironside's late present of a Guardian met with from the worshipful Mr. Mayor, and other substantial inhabitants of that ancient city. To which is added, a prescription from the doctor, by way of postscript, exactly suited to his distemper.

Essays, biographical, critical, and historical, illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian / By Nathan Drake.

The spectator.

The spectator / [by Joseph Addison [and others]] ; edited with an introduction and notes by Donald F. Bond.

Isaac Bickerstaff : physician and astrologer / [Richard Steele ; edited by Henry Morley].

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Richard Steele

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The spectator.

The spectator / [by Joseph Addison [and others]] ; edited with an introduction and notes by Donald F. Bond.

Isaac Bickerstaff : physician and astrologer / [Richard Steele ; edited by Henry Morley].

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