The Works of Daniel Defoe.

DEFOE, Daniel.

Item Number: 3614

London: J.M. Dent, 1899.

The Singleton Edition, numbered 95 of 250 sets printed. Sixteen Volumes. Three quarters red leather over marbled boards, spine titles and tooling to the spine. raised bands. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, red satin bookmark bound into each volume. Illustrated by J.B. Yeats.

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).