There is no complete and uniform edition of the writings of Steele.
The best edition of _The Tatler_ is that of Chalmers, 4 volumes, 1822
(reissued 1855-1856). A new edition, however, in 4 volumes, edited
by George A. Aitken, is now in preparation. Two well-chosen and
well-edited volumes of selections from Steele's work are, _Selections
from Steele_, edited by G. R. Carpenter (_Athenæum Press Series_,
1897), and _Selections from Steele's Contributions to the Tatler,
Spectator, and Guardian_, edited by Austin Dobson, 1897. Steele's
_Plays_, edited by George A. Aitken (1896), make one volume of _The
Mermaid Series_. For the letters of Steele, see _The Epistolary
Correspondence of Richard Steele_, edited by John Nichols, 2 volumes,
1789 (reissued 1809).