Search Results: the life remarkable adventures and pyracies by defoe daniel

London: Printed for F. Noble.., 1768. 299pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep, remains of old paper lettering-piece to head of spine. Heavily rubbed, with boards exposed at corners, loss to spine at head and foot, upper joint naively strengthened, FFEP and title neatly reattached at gutter. With the eighteenth-century book label of 'James Arnot. His Book, at Perth. 1784' to FEP. Several early ownership inscriptions, including those of Patrick Craigie, to blanks at front and end. Browning, staining, occasional marginal loss or pencil trials and chipping throughout. A late eighteenth-century edition of Daniel Defoe's (1660?-1731) swashbuckling pirate novel, originally published in the year after the first appearance of his canonical Robinson Crusoe (1719). A novel of two parts; the first - almost entirely on land - finds the eponymous Captain in an overland trek across Africa after he was stranded in Madagascar following involvement in a mutiny; the second - almost entirely at sea -… Read More