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This small installation, on view in the Rotunda of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library and drawn entirely from the Morgan’s own holdings, marks the two-hundredth anniversary of Brontë’s birth and celebrates her bold, enduring literary voice.

The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner : who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque, having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates. / Written by himself.

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

London : Printed by W. Taylor ..., MDCCXIX. [1719]

PML 6063

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The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. : With an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates. Written by himself.

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

London : Printed for W. Taylor, 1719.

PML 6067

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[The] Life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: : who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, where-in all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates. / Written by himself.

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

London : W. Taylor, 1719.

PML 6065

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A New canting dictionary : comprehending all the terms, ancient and modern, used in the several tribes of gypsies, beggars, shoplifters, highwaymen, foot-pads, and all other clans of cheats and villains ... With a preface, giving an account of the original, progress, &c. of the canting crew; and recommending methods for diminishing these varlets, by better employment of the poor. To which is added a complete collection of songs in the canting dialect.

London, 1725.

PML 31653

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