Accession number
PML 143988
Creator
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Published
London : Thomas Laurie..., ca. 1860?.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Before book was cased, boards were blind-stamped with "THE MONEY MASTER" and a monogrammed shield, both reversed, during production of another publication.
Frontispiece pasted to cover (as usual); plates [3]-[6] in signatures.
Illustrations drawn by Frederick Shields, engraved by Joseph Swain (2 signed) and W. Morton (1 signed).
Preliminary p. [4] misnumbered "xii" (as usual).
Publishers' advertisement on final leaf, listing eleven titles with excerpts from reviews in periodicals, for "The Shilling Entertaining Library of Old Favourites"; series also advertised on back cover.
Running title: The plague of London.
Signatures: A⁴, B-O⁸, P².
Frontispiece pasted to cover (as usual); plates [3]-[6] in signatures.
Illustrations drawn by Frederick Shields, engraved by Joseph Swain (2 signed) and W. Morton (1 signed).
Preliminary p. [4] misnumbered "xii" (as usual).
Publishers' advertisement on final leaf, listing eleven titles with excerpts from reviews in periodicals, for "The Shilling Entertaining Library of Old Favourites"; series also advertised on back cover.
Running title: The plague of London.
Signatures: A⁴, B-O⁸, P².
Description
[4], 206, [4] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's decorated boards.
Classification
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Department