Accession number
PML 143180
Creator
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Published
London : Published at Stationers' Hall Court in the County of London by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., [1915]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Book consists of material from the 5th edition of a work entitled The history and lives of all the most notorious pirates and their crews, published in London in 1735, being an abridgement of a work originally published as A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates, formerly attributed to Captain Charles Johnson, but now ascribed to Daniel Defoe. Cf J.R. Moore, "The authorship of A general history of the pirates," in: Defoe in the pillory and other studies (Bloomington : Indiana University, 1939), p. 126-188.
Illustrated throughout with decorations and full-page illustrations by C. Lovat Fraser.
Plates printed in b&w on green and pink papers.
Illustrated throughout with decorations and full-page illustrations by C. Lovat Fraser.
Plates printed in b&w on green and pink papers.
Description
xvi, 159, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's illustrated boards with matching dustjacket.
Classification
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