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Daniel Defoe. Line engraving by M. van der Gucht, 1706, after himself.

Daniel Defoe. Stipple engraving by J. Thomson after M. van der Gucht.

Six portraits of eminent seventeenth century men. Engraving.

The Plague: a fiction founded upon fact / By the author of Robinson Crusoe. With a sketch of his life, and of the most prominent of his writings [by A. Freeling].

The canonisation of Daniel Defoe / P.N. Furbank & W.R. Owens.

A critical bibliography of Daniel Defoe / P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens.

The body in Swift and Defoe / Carol Houlihan Flynn.

Defoe de-attributions : a critique of J.R. Moore's Checklist / P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens.

A tour thro' London about the year 1725 : being Letter V and parts of Letter VI of 'A tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain,' containing a description of the city of London, as taking in the city of Westminster, borough of Southwark and parts of Middlesex / Reprinted from the text of the original edition, 1724-1926 ; edited & annotated by Sir Mayson M. Beeton and E. Beresford Chancellor.

The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665 : containing observations and memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, both public and private, during that dreadful period / by a citizen, who lived the whole time in London.

The secrets of the invisible world disclos'd: or, an universal history of apparitions. Sacred and profane under all denominations, whether angelical, diabolical, or human souls departed. With a great variety of surprising and diverting examples, never publish'd before. Also shewing how we may distinguish between the apparitions of good and evil spirits, and how we ought to behave to them / by Andrew Moreton [pseud] [Anon].

The history of the Devil, as well ancient as modern : in two parts / [Anon].

A journal of the plague year : being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well publick as private, which happened in London during the last Great Visitation in 1665 / edited, with an introduction, by Louis Landa.

Narratives of two families exposed to the Great Plague of London, A.D. 1665 : with conversations on religious preparation for pestilence. / Republished, with notes and observations, by John Scott.

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Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731

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The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665 : containing observations and memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, both public and private, during that dreadful period / by a citizen, who lived the whole time in London.

The history of the Devil, as well ancient as modern : in two parts / [Anon].

A journal of the plague year : being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well publick as private, which happened in London during the last Great Visitation in 1665 / edited, with an introduction, by Louis Landa.

Narratives of two families exposed to the Great Plague of London, A.D. 1665 : with conversations on religious preparation for pestilence. / Republished, with notes and observations, by John Scott.