Description: An original complete issue of the very first coffeehouse paper, "The Tatler", publ 1709-1711 in London by Richard Steele with Joseph Addison & Jonathan Swift, all 3 using the pseudonym " Isaac Bickerstaff", features satirical accounts of coffeehouse visits, gossip & social customs of gentlemen. The paper also advertises cures for "consumption, colick, venereal disease. The Tatler was the first & most widely read gossip sheet in England and IN Colonial America, renamed "The Spectator" in 1711, giving rise to a host of imitators & establishing coffeehouse news as a genre. The complete 2pp 13 x 8", single sheet paper issued April 8-April 11, 1709 during the reign of Queen Anne and the first Rising of the Jacobites has age spots, edge wear, and is Overall VG.Welcome to my Ebay Auctions and Ebay Store. I am a specialist in early American Military & Historical items, especially American Civil War ephemera- letters, military & historic documents including broadsides, commissions, General Orders and other imprints and badges. I have been collecting and selling original American Civil War & US Military memorabilia for 41 years. PLEASE SEE MY EBAY STORE FOR OTHER CIVIL WAR AND EARLY AMERICAN MILITARIA LISTINGS. I am a longtime member of the Company of Military Historians, the New England Antique Arms Association, the Ephemera Society of America & the Civil War Veterans Historical Assn. My customers have included some of the leading names in collecting and selling American History items, as well was as a wide range of novice & advanced collectors in addition to some 30 US federal, state, public and private university & municipal museums and libraries. NOTE: Any repair to a paper item is listed. I use only museum curator approved archival repair tape. All items are unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic and in the condition as described.. I ship only USPS priority mail with insurance
Price: 195 USD
Location: Angier, North Carolina
End Time: 2024-12-03T17:39:24.000Z
Shipping Cost: 12 USD
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
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