A TRUE COLLECTION OF THE WRITINGS OF... DANIEL DEFOE 1703-1705 FIRST EDITIONS

[DEFOE, DANIEL]. A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-man. London: Printed, and to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster, MDCC III [1703].

First edition, leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (19.5cm x 12cm x 4cm), pp. [24], 465; English text. Bound in contemporary panelled calf with paper title-label to spine, red speckled page edges, initial and terminal blanks present. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with a minor repair to the head of the spine. Interior largely very well-preserved, with some inking to front endpaper.

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[DEFOE, DANIEL]. A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-man. Some Whereof Never Before Printed. London: Printed, and sold by most booksellers, 1705.

First edition, leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (20.5cm x 13cm x 3.5cm), pp. [24], 479, [1]; English text. Bound in contemporary panelled calf. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the hinges and joints intact, minor rubbing to extremities. Interior with light toning, title dust marked, a few marginal tears without loss of text, lacking frontispiece.