The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders : who was born in Newgate, and, during a life of continued variety for 60 years, besides her childhood, was 12 years a whore, 5 years a wife, (whereof once to her brother), 12 years a thief, once condemned, and 7 years a transported felon in Virginia : at last grew rich, lived honest, and died a penitent.

Author
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Penrith [England] : Printed by A. Soulby, [ca. 1800?]
Description
24 p. : 1 ill. (wood-engraving) ; 17 cm.

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Library of Congress genre(s)
Rare books genre
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Notes
  • Illustration is title vignette.
  • Fiction.
  • Ex copy is no. 18 of a volume of 39 chapbooks with spine title: Diverse histories, and with supplied t.p.: Histories collected by John Bell, Newcastle.
Binding note
Ex copy in 19th-century calf, rebacked.
Other title(s)
Moll Flanders.
In
Multi-title collection including The History of Lawrence Lazy : containing, his birth and slothful breeding : how he served the school-master, his wife, the squire's cook, and the farmer : which by the law of Lubberland, was accounted high treason : his arraignment and trial, and happy deliverance from the many treasons laid to his charge and 37 other(s).
OCLC
55005293
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