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The fortunes and misfortunes of Moll Flanders. Who was born in Newgate : And during a life of continued variety for sixty years was 17 times a whore, 5 times wife, whereofonce [sic] to her own brother, 12 years a thief, 11 times in Bridewell, 9 times in New-Prison, 11 times in Wood-street compter, 6 times in the Poultry Compter, 14 times in the Gate-house, 25 times in Newgate, 15 times whipt at the Cart's arse, 4 times burnt in the hand, once condemned for life and 8 years a transport in Virginia. At last grew rich, lived honest, and died penitent.

Accession number
PML 8218.12
Creator
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Published
[London] : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London, [between 1770 and 1790?]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
An abridgment and adaptation of the work by Daniel Defoe.
Caption title on p. 3 reads: The History of Moll Flanders.
In this edition the fifth line of the title ends "5 times wife" and "Bow-Lane" does not appear in the imprint.
Vertical chain lines.
Research by David Stoker suggests a general publication date range spanning from the 1770s to the 1780s for chapbooks bearing the "Aldermary Churchyard" and "Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Lane" imprints, with those bearing the street address "No. 4 Aldermary Churchyard" probably printed sometime after the mid 1770s.
Description
24 p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 16 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of Henry Cunliffe; autograph of John Heaviside; from the Toovey collection.
Classification
Department