The Spectator Fifth Volume (The British Classics Vol. IX) by unstated
1812. No Edition Remarks. 377 pages. No dust jacket. Full bound brown leather with gilt. Black and white illustration plates throughout and similar frontispiece, all with tissue guard. Gilt edges to textblock. Pages bright with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners, crushing to spine ends and rubbing and moderate staining all over. Spine heavily worn and deteriorating. Gilt dulled.