A Letter to a Merry Young Gentleman, Intituled Tho. Burnet, Esq

by Daniel Defoe, attributed to

$350 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

First edition

London: Sold by J. Morphew, 1715. 8vo. 24 pages. Modern quarter calf, cloth boards. A few scattered foxmarks, but a fine copy. Item #408955 First edition. Sometimes attributed to William Oldisworth 1680-1734 , a miscellaneous writer, but also to Defoe by Trent, Hutchins, Moore and Novak; disputed by Furbanks and Owens . It is a reply to Thomas Burnet's ’The necessity of impeaching the late ministry’. ESTC

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