A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe

359 Pages·1998·36.523 MB·English

by  P N Furbank

THE AUTHORS
P. N. FURBANK is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the Open
University. He is the author ofstudies ofSamuelButler, Italo Svevo,
E. M. ForsterandDiderot, andofReflectionson theWord 'Image' (1970)
and Unholy Pleasure: The Idea ofSocial Class (1985).
W. R. OWENS isStaffTutorand SeniorLecturerin Literature at the
OpenUniversity. His publicationsincludeeditionsofJohnBunyan's
Grace Abounding, Aphra Behn's The Rover, and two volumes in the
ClarendonMiscellaneous Works ofJohn Bunyan. Heisco-editorofJohn
Bunyan and His England 1628-88 (1990), and of Shakespeare, Aphra
Behn and the Canon (1996).
Together, P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens have written over twenty
articlesonDefoe. Theirjointbooksinclude TheCanonisation ofDaniel
Defoe (1988) and Defoe De-Attributions (1994). They have edited
Defoe'sTourThroughGreatBritain (1991)andThe True-Born Englishman
andOtherWritings (1997),and areGeneralEditorsoftheforthcoming
forty-four volume edition of The Works of Daniel Defoe (Pickering &
Chatto).

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CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
DANIEL DEFOE
P. N. Furbank and W R. Owens
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1998
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vu
.
Abbreviations
IX
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Introduction
Xlll
The history ofDefoe attribution
XIV
Bibliography and biography
XXI
Principles of author-attribution
XXV
Presentation of entries xxviii
.
Library symbols
XXXI
Critical bibliography 1
Collected works 3
Books, pamphlets and broadsheets 7
Periodicals 242
Contributions to books and periodicals 258
Translations and compilations 261
Works left in manuscript 263
Letters 269
Appendices
A: Unresolved problems in attribution 271
B: Occasional Conformity 280
c:
The Union with Scotland 282
D: The Bangorian controversy 285
General index 289
Defoe title index 309
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thepresentbookisthe fruit ofsometwelveorthirteenyearsofwork
onDefoe bibliography, and during this time we have been assisted
invariouswaysbyalargenumberofpeople.Wewouldliketo record
our thanks in particular to Jacques Alblas, David Blewett, Wendy
Clarke,TonyCoulson,AlanDownie,FrankEllis,DrB. Fabian,David
Hayton, Henry Horwitz, John McVeagh, Maximillian E. Novak,
Richard Ovenden, Yerevan Peterson and the late Spiro Peterson,
Manuel Schonhorn, Geoffrey Sill and Ian Willison. We also owe a
specialdebttoDouglasMatthewsfor hiscareovertheGeneralIndex.
Our editors at Pickering and Chatto, Bridget Frost and Rebecca
Saraceno, were always most helpful.
It seems appropriate in a work of this kind to record also our
gratitude to the staff of the many libraries in which we worked, or
who provided us with copies of material in their possession. We
mightmentioninparticularthefollowinglibraries:theBeineckeRare
BookandManuscriptLibrary,YaleUniversity; theBodleianLibrary,
Oxford; the Boston Public Library; the British Library; Cornell
University Library; Dr Williams's Library, London; the Guildhall
Library, London; the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino,
California;theHoughtonLibrary,HarvardUniversity; theUniversity
ofDlinois Library at Urbana-Champaign; the Lilly Library, Indiana
University; the Lincolnshire County Archives; the London Library;
the National Library of Ireland; the National Library of Scotland;
the New York Public Library; the Newberry LibraI]', Chicago; the
Open University Library; St David's University College Library,
Lampeter;TrinityCollegeLibrary,Dublin; the UniversityofLondon
Library; and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library,
University ofCalifornia.
Finall}',ourworkwould not have been possible without financial
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aid from various bodies. We are grateful for the award of Mayer
Fund Fellowships which enabled us to work at the Huntington
Library; for a number ofgrants from the British Academy for travel
to libraries in the United States of America; and for grants for
equipment and travel within the United Kingdom from the Faculty
ofArtsResearchCommitteeandthe UniversityResearchCommittee
at the Open University.
Note
We have taken the opportunity provided by the first reprinting of
our book to make a number of small corrections.
P. N. F. and W. R. O.
January 2000
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ABBREVIATIONS
DEFOE BIBLIOGRAPHERS AND LISTS
OF HIS WRITINGS
Chalmers George Chalmers's 'List ofWritings' ofDefoe,
appended to the second edition of his Life ofDaniel De
Foe (1790). It is in two parts: (1) 'considered as
undoubtedlyDe Foe's'; (2) 'supposed to beDe Foe's'
,Cibber, The list of thirteen 'principal performances' included
in an article on 'DanielDe Foe' in The Lives ofthe Poets
ofGreat Britain and Ireland, 4vols (1753), 4, pp. 313-25.
(Although Theophilus Cibber's name appears on the
title-page, Robert Shielsis now regarded as the main
author.)
Crossley James Crossley's manuscript list ofsixtyDefoe attri
butions, drawn up between 1869 and 1883; reprinted
in P. N. Furbankand W. R. Owens, The Canonisation of
Daniel Defoe (New Haven and London, 1988),
pp. 184-7
Hutchins Henry C. Hutchins's list ofDefoe's writings in The
Cambridge Bibliography ofEnglish Literature, ed. F. W.
Bateson, vol. 2 (1940)
Lee William Lee's Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently
DiscoveredWritings, 3vols (1869), and the
'ChronologicalCatalogue ofDanielDefoe's Works' at
the beginning ofvol. 1
Moore John Robert Moore, AChecklist ofthe W10itings ofDaniel
Defoe (2nd edn, Hamden, Connecticut, 1971)
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Novak Maximillian E. Novak's list ofDefoe's writings in
The New Cambridge Bibliography ofEnglish
Literatul'e, ed. George Watson, vo!. 2 (1971)
Stace [Machell Stace,] An Alphabetical Catalogue ofan
Extensive Collection ofthe Writings ofDaniel De Foe;
andofthe Different Publicationsfor andagainst that
Extraordinaly Writer (1829)
Ve1Y
Trent William Peterfield Trent's unpublished biblio
(Bibliography) graphy ofDefoe, typescript now in the Collection
ofAmerican Literature, Beinecke Rare Bookand
Manuscript Library, Yale University
Trent (CHEL) Trent's list ofDefoe's works at the end of his
chapter 'Defoe: The Newspaper and the Novel' in
the Cambridge History ofEnglish Literature, ed. A. W.
Ward and A. R. WaIler, 14 vols (Cambridge, 1912),
9,pp.1-28,463-82
Trent (Nation) Trent's 'Bibliographical Notes on Defoe, I-Ill', in
the New York Nation, 84 (June 1907), pp. 51~18,
and 85 (July and August 1907), pp. 29-32, 180-3
Wilson WaIter Wilson's Memoirs ofthe Life and Times of
Daniel De Foe, 3 vols (1830), and the'Catalogue of
De Foe's Works' at the beginning ofvo!. 1
OTHER ABBREVIATIONS
BjECS British joul'nalfor Eighteenth-Century Studies
Bowdler John Harris, 'ManuscriptDates on Pamphlets
Collected by Thomas Bowdler11, with Examples
from Defoe', The Book Collector, 30 (1981),
pp.22~31.
Canonisation P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens, The Canonisation of
Daniel Defoe (New Haven and London, 1988)
De-Attributions P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens, Defoe De
Attributions: A Critique ofj. R. Moore's 'Checklist'
(London and Rio Grande, 1994)
ESTC The Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
x