[DEFOE, DANIEL]. The Works. Carefully Selected From the Most Authentic Sources With Chalmer's Life of the Author, Annotated. Edited by John S. Keltie. Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1889.
Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo (240 x 160 mm.), pp. [xi], 607. English text in double column. Contemporary half leather, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece in second compartment, gilt armorial crest to upper cover, all page edges and endpapers marbled, portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title-page. Contents: Preface; Notes; Life of Defoe; Robinson Crusoe; The Life of Colonel Jack; Memoirs of a Cavalier; The Life and Adventures of Duncan Campbell; Journal of the Plague in London; Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business; The Apparition of Mrs. Veal; The Shortest Way with Dissenters; Giving Alms No Charity; The Complete English Tradesman; The True-Born Englishman; A Hymn to the Pillory. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson, and Co. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, the hinges intact, light handling to covers. Contents with foxing to prelims, else clean. Prize inscription inked to front endpaper.
