Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift

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CHARLES GILDON (1665-1724) 

The life and strange surprizing adventures of Mr. D---- de F--, of London, hosier: who has liv’d above fifty yeares by himself in the kingdoms of north and south Britain ...: in a dialogue between him, Robinson Crusoe, and his Man Friday, with remarks serious and comical upon the life of Crusoe. 

London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1719 

A parody of Defoe’s The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe. 

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JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)

The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.:D.S.P.D. with notes historical and critical by J. Hawkesworth ... and others.

Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, 1774. 15 vols.

Each vol. has engraved t.p. “An account of the life of Doctor Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s Dublin”: v. 1, p. [xii]-cxi.

From the collection of Stanley Marcus. Gift of Linda Marcus, 2003.

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DANIEL DEFOE (1661?-1731) 

The True Born Englishman: A Satire 

London: Printed for Ann LeMoine [ca. 1805?] 

First published in 1701, Defoe’s satirical poem was immensely popular, attacking the prejudice against a king of foreign birth. Undated, but Ann LeMoine was active 1798-1812. 

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EDWARD DUNIGAN 

Dunigan’s history of Robinson Crusoe. 

[New York? : E. Dunigan? 184-?] 

An eight-page abridgement, in verse! 

Eighteenth Century Poets
Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift