The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe.

DEFOE, Daniel.

$3,500.00

Item Number: 147162

Oxford: Printed by D.A. Talboys, for Thomas Tegg, 1840-41.

The Talboys edition of the complete works of Daniel Defoe. Octodecimo, twenty volumes bound in red half morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, information slip tipped in to Vol. I, engraved frontispiece portrait to Vol. II. In fine condition.

Daniel Defoe "was a master of plain prose and powerful narrative, with a journalist's curiosity and love of realistic detail; his peculiar gifts made him one of the greatest reporters of his time, as well as a great imaginative writer" (Drabble, 263).