[ADDISON, Joseph and Richard STEELE (co-authors)] Hugh THOMSON (illustrator). Days with Sir Roger de Coverley. London Macmillan And Co. 1892

8vo.; original darkest green cloth prettily blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt, dark green endpapers; pp. [xi], 12-158 + [i]; with illustrations in line after engravings by Thomson; externally fresh, clean and bright, internally very good, with crisp endpapers but with some foxing throughout, never heavy, and spotting beneath the fore-edge gilding.

First edition thus, issued in Macmillan’s popular Cranford Series of pictorial cloth bindings but previously issued in a pictorial cloth format, with 82-pages, in square 8vo., by Macmillan.

This book comprises a series of short and witty essays about the fictional character of Sir Roger de Coverley, an eccentric and well-meaning Worcestershire squire who embodies the quirks and virtues of an early 18th century English gentleman. The stories first appeared in The Spectator between 1711 and 1712.