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The storm, or, A collection of the most remarkable casualties and disasters which happen'd in the late dreadful tempest, both by sea and land.

Accession number
PML 127716
Creator
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Published
London : Printed for G. Sawbridge ... and sold by J. Nutt ... 1704.
Credit line
Purchased in 1995.
Notes
First edition.
Signatures: A-S⁸.
Pagination errors: 148 as 184, and 259 as 249 (as usual?).
Attributed to Defoe (see Moore); preface signed "The Ages Humble Servant."
Folding table of "A list of such of Her Majesty's ships, with their commanders names, as were cast away ...," with a note at bottom: "The Van Guard, a second rate, was over-set at Chatham, but no men lost, the ship not being fitted out[.]"
Descriptions of the storm of November 26-27, 1703.
Includes "A Pastoral, Occasion'd by the Late Violent Storm," first line: "Walking alone by pleasant Isis side" (p. 42-45).
Description
[xvi], 272 p., [1] leaf of plates (folding) ; 19 cm.
Provenance
Miss Proctor, Somerset House (signature); Isaac Robinson (signature, possibly of an American preacher with this name, 1780-1854).
Binding
Three-quarter calf, spine gold-tooled.
Classification
Department