[Addison, Joseph]. THE FREE-HOLDER, Or Political Essays. London. Printed for D. Midwinter at the three Crowns in St. Paul’s Churchyard; and J. Tonson at Shakespeare’s Head in the Strand. 1716. [12], 311, Errata [1] pp. Page 59 mis-paginated “83.” Page 202 is “102.” Collation: A-A6, B-O12, in 12’s, except for the 6-leaf signature A, which begins with the half title. 12mo. Later full leather. Minor wear to spine ends, bands, and corners. Bdg and text very good. “During the period (while he was serving as one of the lord commissioners of trade) Addison published the ‘Freeholder’—fifty-five papers, from 23 December 1715, to 9 June 1716—a political ‘Spectator,’ in defence of orthodox whig principles imperiled by the rebellion in Scotland… remarkable for two numbers devoted to the tory fox-hunter, an admirable portrait halfway between Sir Roger de Coverley and Squire Western.”-–DNB I, 129. The fox-hunter numbers are 22 and 47. ESTC T40194. No. 16 is “On the late Act of Parlimament for suspending the Habeus Corpus Act.”