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A four-volume edition (1797) of Richard Steele's famous periodical of news and gossip, first published 1709-11.
Contains no. 1 (Apr. 12, 1709)-no. 271 (Jan. 2, 1711) of The Tatler, originally published in London, and no. 1 (Mar. 12, 1713)-no. 175 (Oct. 1, 1713) of The Guardian, originally published in London, with added contents, plates, indexes, and annotations.
A four-volume edition (1797) of Richard Steele's famous periodical of news and gossip, first published 1709 11."
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The Tatler was founded in 1709 by Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift and Joseph Addison. Steele used the nom de plume of "Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire," the first such consistently adopted journalistic persona. Steele's idea was to publish the news and gossip heard in London coffeehouses, hence the title, and seemingly, from the opening paragraph, to leave the subject of politics to the newspapers, while presenting Whiggish views and correcting middle-class manners, while instructing "these Gentlemen, for the most part being Persons of strong Zeal, and weak Intellects... what to think. " To assure complete coverage of local gossip, a reporter was placed in each of the city's popular coffeehouses, ...