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Call Number:
MSS 17
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Addison, Joseph, 1672–1719
Title(s):
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.
Date:
1967
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series II: Publications Designed or Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith
Part of Collection:
volume Moss no. 85
Provenance:
Gift of Roger W. Moss, 2011
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
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 case. This book project––Shirley Smith's first for The Folio Society––would presage his later career as the illustrator of fine limited editions; it was also his first major commission for a large number of his engravings. The year 1967 would prove to be a turning point in his career. A record for this item is also available in the <extref xlink:type="simple" xlink:actuate="onRequest" xlink:show="new" xlink:href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10424473">Yale University Library Catalog.</extref>
Physical Description:
Pp. [1-6] 7-158 [159-160] ; 226 x 148 mm
Finding Aid Title:
Roger W. Moss Collection of Manuscript, Original Art and Printed Material by and about Richard Shirley Smith
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5884.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396034
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396034?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1