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Joseph Addison, English writer and politician, c1870 (1878). Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an essayist, poet, playwright and politician who founded the daily publication The Spectator with Richard Steele (1672- 1729) in 1711. From Old and New London Illustrated, Vol IV, by Edward Walford. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, 1878]