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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 farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being the second and last part of his life, and of the strange surprising account of his travels round three parts of the globe. Written by himself

The shortest-way with the dissenters: or proposals for the establishment of the church

A farther argument against ennobling foreigners, in answer to the two parts of the State anatomy: with a short account of the anatomizer

The history of the union between England and Scotland. To which is added, the articles of union, &c. By Daniel De Foe

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; ... Written by himself

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The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being the second and last part of his life, and of the strange surprising account of his travels round three parts of the globe. Written by himself

The shortest-way with the dissenters: or proposals for the establishment of the church

A farther argument against ennobling foreigners, in answer to the two parts of the State anatomy: with a short account of the anatomizer

The history of the union between England and Scotland. To which is added, the articles of union, &c. By Daniel De Foe

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; ... Written by himself