The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. With illustrations by Reginald Marsh. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1954.
One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This being copy no. 980.
Octavo. 370 pp. Publisher's full blue silk over padded boards, spine and front cover stamped and lettered in copper, edges speckled brown and blue, hand-colored frontispiece. A fine copy with original, very worn slipcase.
Daniel Defoe (1660? – 1731) was an English journalist, novelist and spy, and was largely responsible for making the novel the most popular form of literature in Britain. Incredibly prolific, he wrote over 500 novels, pamphlets and articles on a variety of topics, both fiction and non-fiction.
Newman & Wiche, 243.
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