Accession number
PML 46495
Creator
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Published
[Cummington, Mass.] The Cummington press, 1946.
Notes
At head of title: Edited by George Harris Healey.
"The earliest known writings of Daniel Defoe. The text is printed from a notebook written in his hand ... and dated by him 1681. Of this 195-page manuscript, now in the Huntington library, the greater part consists of Defoe's transcripts of six sermons ... by Mr. John Collins. But the last twenty-three pages, that portion of the manuscrpt printed here, contain seven verse meditations of Defoe's own composition."--Introd.
"This first edition consists of just 280 copies ... thirty copies on Georgian paper being for review, the rest, numbered 1 to 250 and on Tuscany handmade paper being mostly for sale ..."
"The earliest known writings of Daniel Defoe. The text is printed from a notebook written in his hand ... and dated by him 1681. Of this 195-page manuscript, now in the Huntington library, the greater part consists of Defoe's transcripts of six sermons ... by Mr. John Collins. But the last twenty-three pages, that portion of the manuscrpt printed here, contain seven verse meditations of Defoe's own composition."--Introd.
"This first edition consists of just 280 copies ... thirty copies on Georgian paper being for review, the rest, numbered 1 to 250 and on Tuscany handmade paper being mostly for sale ..."
Description
ix, 25, [1] p. 26 cm
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