The meditations of Daniel Defoe
Subtitle: now first printed.
Contributors: Healey, George Harris, ed.
Publisher: The Cummington press
Published: 1946
Place of publication: [Cummington, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Notes: At head of title: Edited by George Harris Healey.
"The earliest known writings of Daniel Defoe.  The text is printed from a notebook written in his hand ... and dated by him 1681.  Of this 195-page manuscript, now in the Huntington library, the greater part consists of Defoe's transcripts of six sermons ... by Mr. John Collins.  But the last twenty-three pages, that portion of the manuscrpt printed here, contain seven verse meditations of Defoe's own composition."--Introd.
"This first edition consists of just 280 copies ... thirty copies on Georgian paper being for review, the rest, numbered 1 to 250 and on Tuscany handmade paper being mostly for sale ... Number 179."