Author: Daniel Defoe
Title: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
Description: London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1929. Cloth. A smart new edition of this illustrated copy of Defoe's picaresque novel following the fall and redemption of Moll Flanders, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. New edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifteen plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A first-person picaresque novel purporting to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age. Exploring the fall and eventual redemption, both material and spiritual, of a lone woman in seventeenth-century England, with her savvy manipulation of both men and wealth earning her a life of trials, but ultimately an ending in reward. Written by Daniel Defoe, an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy best known for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Illustrated by John Archibald Austen, a British book illustrator. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Light sunning to the spine with the odd small mark. Minor loss from chipping to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. With light spotting and age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: John Austen. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Fortunes Misfortunes Moll Flanders Misfortunes Austen John Austen


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