Monday, May 18, 2020

PYRATES BY DANIEL DEFOE

An account of the conduct and proceedings of the late John Gow alias Smith, captain of the late pirates, : executed for murther and piracy committed on board the George Gally, afterwards call'd the Revenge ...by Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731


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Publication date 1725  

Publisher London, Printed and sold by John Applebee...

Digitizing sponsor Boston Public LibraryContributor Boston Public LibraryLanguage English
Boston Public Library (Rare Book Dept.) copy: ex libris: Huth Collection


https://archive.org/details/kingofpiratesbei00defo/page/n6/mode/2up

The king of pirates: : being an account of the famous enterprises of Captain Avery, the mock king of Madagascar with his rambles and piracies wherein all the sham accounts formerly publish'd of him, are detected. In two letters from himself; one during his stay at Madagascar, and one since his escape from thenceby 

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Publication date 1720
Publisher London, : Printed for A. Bettesworth..., C. King..., J. Brotherton and W. Meadows..., W. Chetwood..., and sold by W. Boreham...
Digitizing sponsor Boston Public LibraryContributor 
Language English

Signatures: A³, B-N(last leaf and verso of N³blank; wanting N)

Printed 10 Dec. 1719. Cf. J.B. Moore, A checklist of the writings of Danel Defoe

"Fiction with scarcely a substratum of fact". Dict. nat. biog

References: Moor

e 424; Boston Public Library, Catalog of the Defoe collection, item 402; Esdale, A.J.K., A list of English tales and prose fiction printed before 1740, p. 205; not in McBurney

Boston Public Library (Rare Book Dept.) has two copies: the Defoe copy is ex libris (book label) Huth Collection



https://archive.org/details/lifeadventuresa00defogoog/page/n6/mode/2up







Attribution to Defoe is based on internal textual relationship to his works of proven authorship together with supporting external evidence. Cf. J.H. Moore. Defoe in the pillory. Bloomington, Ind., 1939, p. 126-188

First ed. was printed for C. Rivington in 1724 under title: A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates ... By Captain Charles Johnson

Boston Public Library (Rare Book Dept.) copy: errors in pagination: 329,248 and 349 misnumbered 229, 48 and 3; verso and recto of the 9th prelim. leaf have been transposed in imposition

https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof00john/page/n9/mode/2up

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