The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers

PREFACE

The text of the _Coverley_ papers in this volume is that of G. Gregory Smith's edition of _The Spectator_. This edition has been chosen because it reproduces the original form of the papers after they had been corrected by Steele and Addison for the first Collected Edition of _The Spectator_, 1712-1715, and before they had been tampered with by later editors. In three o...