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• Essays on I. Moral Sentiments; II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysics; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses (London: A. Murray and Co., 1872), by Adam Smith, ed. by James Hutton and Joseph Black
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• The Spectator: A New Edition, Reproducing the Original Text Both As First Issued and As Corrected by its Authors (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1891), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, ed. by Henry Morley
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• The Tatler (reprinted edition of the serial founded in 1709, in 4 volumes; New York: Hadley and Mathews, 1899), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, ed. by George Atherton Aitken (searchable DjVu at Rutgers)
• Critical Essays of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1725 (1915), ed. by W. H. Durham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on Philosophical Subjects, by the Late Adam Smith, LL.D., Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, &c., &c.; To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1795), by Adam Smith, ed. by James Hutton and Joseph Black, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sir Roger de Coverley papers (American Book Company, 1904), by Joseph Addison, Eustace Budgell, Richard Steele, and C. T. Winchester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical essays of the eighteenth century, 1700-1725 (Russell & Russell, 1961), by W. H. Durham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tatler. (Duckworth, 1898), by George Atherton Aitken, Joseph Addison, and Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lover : to which is added, The reader (Printed for J. Tonson ..., 1715), by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• English literary criticism, 1726-1750. ([Fort Hays Kansas State College], 1962), by Samuel J. Sackett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British essayists : with prefaces, historical and critical (Printed for T. and J. Allman, 1823), by Lionel Thomas Berguer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lover, and other papers of Steele and Addison. (Walter Scott, 1887), by Walter Lewin, Richard Steele, and Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tatler. (Printed by C. Whittingham, published by John Sharpe, 1804), by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, and Chiswick Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighteenth century essays (D. Appleton and company, 1882), by Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and poems (Printed for W. and J. Deas ..., 1806), by Oliver Goldsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spectator in London : essays (Macmillan, 1896), by Joseph Addison, Ralph Cleaver, and Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spectator (Dent ;, 1907), by G. Gregory Smith, Richard Steele, and Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians : connected and digested under alphabetical heads. (Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper [and 12 others] and sold by R. Baldwin ...., 1753), by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tatler. (Printed by Charles Whittingham for John Sharpe, 1709), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tatler. (Duckworth, 1709), by George Atherton Aitken, Joseph Addison, and Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prosaschriften (E. Reiss, 1919), by Jonathan Swift and Frederick Philip Grove (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Byron and Addison (W.J. Gage, 1889), by George Byron, J. E. Wetherell, Frederick Henry Sykes, and Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays of Richard Steele (Macmillan, 1902), by Richard Steele and L. E. Steele (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selections from the Tatler, Spectator and Guardian. (Clarendon Press, 1896), by Richard Steele and Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spectator. (Putnam, 1877), by Joseph Addison, Richard Steel, and Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays (Macmillan, 1907), by Richard Steele and L. E. Steele (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Spectator. (A.H. Pounsford & Co., 1876), by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addison's essays from the Spectator : with explanatory notes. (Ward, Lock, 1882), by Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tatler (M. Wallis Woodward & Co., 1835), by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tatler, with notes, and a general index [no. 1-271 ; Apr. 12, 1709-Jan. 2, 1710] ; complete in one volume. (M. Wallis Woodward, 1835), by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tatler. (Printed by Bye and Law for Messrs. Longman, Dodsley, Law ... [et al.], 1797), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• The age revealed : the Eighteenth-Century essay, edited by C. James. (T. Nelson, 1927), by Charles James (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Addision (Printed by T. Davison for Thomas Tegg (No. 73, Cheapside); R. Griffin and Co., Glasgow; and J. Cumming, Dublin, 1832), by Joseph Addison and Alfred Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world (Abraham O. Stansbury, 1803), by Horace Walpole and Edward Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighteenth century essays (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1911), by Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 02: The Rambler, Volume I, by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09: Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer, by Jonathan Swift, ed. by Temple Scott (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Champion (London, 1739-1740s) (partial serial archives)
• The Guardian. (Printed for J. Tonson, 1734), by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventurer. (Printed for J. Dodsley [etc.], 1794), by Joseph Warton, Richard Bathurst, Samuel Johnson, and John Hawkesworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The London magazine enlarged and improved. (Printed for R. Baldwin, 1783) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spectator. (Applegate & co., 1859), by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spectator : with notes and a general index. (J.J. Woodward, 1832), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventurer. (AMS Press, 1752), by Joseph Warton, Richard Bathurst, Samuel Johnson, and John Hawkesworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spectator. A new ed., reproducing the original text, both as first issued and as corr., by its authors. With introd., notes and index. (G. Routledge, 1883), by Henry Morley, Richard Steele, and Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spectator (J.M. Dent & Co. ;, 1711), by G. Gregory Smith, Richard Steele, and Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventurer. : v. 1-2 (no. 1-140); Nov. 7, 1752-Mar. 9, 1754. (AMS Press, 1968) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventurer. (Printed for Samuel F. Bradford ... and John Conrad & Co. ... :, 1803), by H. Maxwell, Angier March, Samuel F. Bradford, Joseph Warton, Samuel Johnson, John Hawkesworth, Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library), and John Conrad & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tatler, Volume 4, by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison, ed. by George Atherton Aitken (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Tatler, Volume 2, by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison, ed. by George Atherton Aitken (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Tatler, Volume 3, by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison, ed. by George Atherton Aitken (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Tatler, Volume 1, by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison, ed. by George Atherton Aitken (Gutenberg ebook)

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