Accession number
PML 142140-41
Creator
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Published
London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1790.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signatures: A⁶, A⁴, B-Bb⁸, Cc⁴; A², B-Gg⁸, Hh⁴.
Engraved title pages.
Illustrations designed by Stothard, engraved by Medland.
Subscribers' list and advertisement for a forthcoming edition of Shakespeare's works included in v. 1 following preface and list of plates; publisher's advertisements, p. [1-14], at end of v. 2.
Chalmer's life of Defoe in v. 2 includes a bibliography of Defoe's writing; with frontispiece portrait of Defoe and separate t.p.
Leaf [A6] misbound preceding A2, v. 1 (as in PML 81162-63).
Engraved title pages.
Illustrations designed by Stothard, engraved by Medland.
Subscribers' list and advertisement for a forthcoming edition of Shakespeare's works included in v. 1 following preface and list of plates; publisher's advertisements, p. [1-14], at end of v. 2.
Chalmer's life of Defoe in v. 2 includes a bibliography of Defoe's writing; with frontispiece portrait of Defoe and separate t.p.
Leaf [A6] misbound preceding A2, v. 1 (as in PML 81162-63).
Description
2 v. (xii, 389, [3] p. including final blank, [8] leaves of plates; [iii]-v, [1], 456, [14] p. including final blank, [7] leaves of plates) : ill., port. (engravings) ; 22 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary red morocco, gold tooled, with dentelles.
Classification
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