… Image Thursday, March 1, 1711. The first issue of The Spectator, 1711. Printed on both sides on a single sheet of paper. From the website: The Open Anthology of Literature in … exact contemporaries, sought to anchor politeness in real virtue. In their periodicals , the Tatler (1709-1711) and the Spectator (1711-1712, 1714), Richard Steele (1672-1729) and Joseph Addison (1672-1719) recurred frequently to the moral … Cambridge University Press, 1994). 3 . Michael G. Ketcham, Transparent Designs: Reading, Performance, and Form in the Spectator Papers (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1985). 4 . Lawrence Klein, Shaftesbury and the Culture of …