Male : Novelist, Journalist, Pamphleteer & Political Agent. Travelled as a merchant and probable spy round Britain & Europe before becoming a writer. Produced maybe 500 books

Nationality : English Place of Birth : St Giles, Cripplegate, London

Date of Birth : 1660 Date of Death : 1731 Age : 70

Pseudonyms : Daniel Foe until 1703

Other Work : Edited The Review 1704-13

Education : Dissenting College, Newington

1689-1700
Reflections upon the Late Great Revolution (1689 for Richard Chiswell, London) - Anon
New Discovery of an Old Intrigue : Verse (1691)
The Character of Dr Samuel Annesley : Verse (1697)
Essay on Projects (1698)
The Pacificator : Verse (1700)
The Two Great Questions Consider'd - I : What the French King Will Do .. II : What measures the
English ought to Take (1700 London)
Offered in 1999 for £320

1701-1702
The True-Born Englishman : A Satyr (1701)
The Villainy of Stock-Jobbers Detected, and the Causes of the Late Run upon the Bank and
Bankers discovered and considered (1701 London) - Anon
Offered in 1992 for £1500
The Mock Mourners : Verse (1702)
Reformation of Manners : Verse (1702)
New Test of Church of England's Loyalty (1702)
The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702)
[This satirical pamphlet, published anonymously, was a parody of High Church intolerance]
Legion's New Paper : Being a Second Memorial to the Gentlemen of a Late House of Commons
(1702 Edinburgh) - Anon
Offered in 1992 for £380

1703-1705
Ode to the Athenian Society (1703)
Enquiry into Acgill's General Translation (1703)
More Reformation : Verse (1703)
A Hymn to the Pillory (1703)
A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-Man, corrected by Himself
(1703 sold by most Booksellers in London & Westminster) - Anon
A Collection of the Writings (1703 pirated) - Anon
A Collection of the Writings (1703-5) - enlarged to 2 vols
More Short Ways with Dissenters (1704 London) - Anon
Offered in 1992 for £280
The Storm : or a Collection of the most remarkable Casualties and Disasters which happened in the Late
Dreadful Tempest, both by Sea and Land (1704 for G Sawbridge, sold by J Nutt) - Anon
A Layman's Sermon on the Late Storm (1704)
The Consolidator, or Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon (1704)
Elegy on Author of 'True-Born Englishman' (1704)
Hymn to Victory (1704)
Giving Alms no Charity (1704)
The Review (1704-1713)
Peace Without Union : By Way of Reply to Sir H.M's (Humphrey Mackworth) Peace at Home
(1704 London. 4th Ed)
The Dyet of Poland : Verse (1705)

1706-1710
Apparition of Mrs Veal (1706)
Sermon on the Filling-up of Dr Burgess's Meeting House (1706)
Caledonia : A Poem in Honour of Scotland (1706 Edinburgh)
A Seasonable Warning or the Pope and King of France Unmasked (1706 Edinburgh) - Anon
Jure Divino : a Satyr in 12 Books (1706 London) - Anon
Caledonia : Verse (1706)
An Elegy on the Author of the True-Born-English-Man : With an Essay on the Late Storm
(1708 Ptd by H Hills, London) - Anon
The History of the Union of Great Britain (1709 Heirs & Successors of Andrew Anderson, Edinburgh)
(1786 London)
A Letter from a Gentleman at the Court of St Germains (1710 London) - Anon

1711-1715
The Scotch Medal Deciphered, and the New Hereditary Right Men Displayed
(1711 for S Popping, London) - Anon
Offered in 1992 for £450
A Letter from a Gentleman in Scotland to His Friend in London (1712 London) - Anon
A Further Search into the Conduct of the Allies, and the late Ministry, as to Peace & War
(1712 John Morphew, London) - Anon
Short Enquiry into a Late Duel (1713)
A General History of Trade (1713)
The Trade with France, Italy, Spain and Portugal considered (1713 London. 4th Ed) - Anon
A Letter from a Member of the House of Commons to His friend in the Country, relating to the
Bill of Commerce (1713 J Baker, London) - Anon
The Secret History of the White-Staff (1714 for J Baker, London) - Anon
Wars of Charles III (1715)
The Family Instructor (Vol 1) (1715 E Matthews, London & J Button, Newcastle) - Anon
(Vol II) (1718 E Matthews, London) - Anon
Hymn to the Mob (1715)

1716-1720
An Argument Proving that the Design of Employing and Enobling Foreigners, is a Treasonable
Conspiracy against the Constitution (1717 for the Booksellers, London)
Offered in 1992 for £250
Minutes of the Negotiations of Monsr. Mesnager at the Court of England
(1717 for S Baker, London) - Anon
Memoirs of the Church of Scotland (1717)
Life and Death of Count Patkul (1717)
Memoirs of the Duke of Shrewsbury (1718)
Memoirs of Daniel Williams (1718)
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Adventurer (1719)
[SEE LATER FOR DETAILED EDITIONS]
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
The Dumb Philosopher, or Great Britain's Wonder (1719)
The King of Pirates (Capt. Avery) (1719)
The Life of Baron de Goertz (1719)
The History of the Life & Adventures of Mr Duncan Campbell (1720 for E Curll) - Anon
Mr Campbell's Pacquet (1720)
Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720 for A Bell, London) - Anon
Offered in 1992 for £350
The Life of ... Captain Singleton (1720 J Brotherton, London) - Anon
Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720)
The Supernatural Philosopher, or The Mysteries of Magick (1720)
Translation of Du Fresnoy's Compleat Art of Painting : Verse (1720)

1721-1723
A Journal of the Plague Year (1722 E Nutt) - Anon
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1722 W Chetwood & T Edling, London)
[Filmed in 1996 as "Moll Flanders"]
Due Preparations for the Plague (1722)
A Life of Cartouche (1722)
The History of Colonel Jack (Jacque) (1722 J Brotherton) - Anon
(1724 J Brotherton. 3rd Ed)
Offered in 1992 for £450
Religious Courtship (1722)
An Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Peter Alexowitz, the Present Czar of Muscov
(1723 Chetwood) - Anon
The Highland Rogue (Rob Roy) (1723)

1724-1725
Roxana, or The Fortunate Mistress (1724 T Werner, London)
Narratives of Murders at Calais (1724)
Life of John Sheppard (1724)
Robberies, Esacpes, etc of John Sheppard (1724)
The Great Law of Subordination, or The Insolence and Insufferable Behaviour of Servants in England (1724)
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates ..
by Capt Charles Johnson (1724 Rivington, Lacy, Stone, London)
Offered in 1992 for £550
[A second volume was published in 1728]
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-7 G Strahan) - 3 vols. Anon
(1742 London. 3rd Ed) - 4 vols
(1748 London. 4th Ed) - 4 vols
(1753 London. 5th Ed) - 4 vols
(1769 Rivington. 7th Ed) - 4 vols
Offered in 1993 for £310
(1778 London. 8th ed) - 4 vols
A New Voyage Round the World, by a Course Never Sailed Before .. East India
Company in Flanders (1725 Bettesworth & Mears)
Offered in 1993 for £250
Account of Jonathan Wild (1725)
Account of John Gow (1725)
Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business (on Servants) (1725)

1726-1727
The Friendly Demon (1726)
Mere Nature Delineated (Peter the Wild Boy) (1726)
Political History of the Devil (1726) (1727 T Warner 2nd Ed)
The Complete English Tradesman : Vol 1 (1726 Rivington, London) - Anon
Essay upon Literature and the Original of Letters (1726)
History of Discoveries (1726-7)
The Protestant Monastery (1726)
A System of Magic (1726)
Parochial Tyranny (1727)
Treatise Concerning Use and Abuse of Marriage (1727)
Secrets of Invisible World Discovered, or History and Reality of Apparitions (1727-8)
The Complete English Tradesman : Vol II (1727 Rivington, London) - Anon
Conjugal Lewdness, or Matrimonial Whoredom (1727 for T Warner, London) - Anon
Offered in 1992 for £1150

1729-1731
A New Family Instructor (1728)
Augusta Triumphans (1728)
Plan of English Commerce (1728)
Second Thoughts are Best (on Street Robberies) (1728)
Street Robberies Considered (1728)
Captain Carlton (1728)
Humble Proposal to People of England for Increase of Trade, ect (1729)
Preface to R Dodsley's Poem 'Servitude' (1729)
Effectual Scheme for Preventing Street Robberies (1731)

1732-1800
Secret Memoirs of the Late Mr Duncan Campbell, the Famous Deaf & Dumb Gentleman
(1732 Millan, London)
The Memoirs of Capt George Carleton, an English Officer, whos erved in the Last Two Wars
against France and Spain (1743 for Thomas Astley) - Anon
The History of the Great Plague in London in the Year 1665 (1754 Noble. 2nd Ed)
Offered in 1999 for £455
The History of Madamoiselle de Veleau, or The New Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress
(1775 for the Editor & Noble, Lowndes)
The History of the Union Between England & Scotland (1786 John Stockdale)

19thC
The Adventures of Robert Drury, during 15 years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar
(1807 Stodart & Craggs, Hull)
[Defore is the alleged author of this work]
The History of the Great Plague in London in 1665 (1832 Renshaw, London. New Ed)
A Journal of the Plague Year (1835 Tegg. New Ed) - George Cruikshank
The Novels and Miscellaneous Works (1840-1 Talboys for Tegg, Oxford) - 20 vols
Offered in 1999 for £200
The Travels of Daniel Defoe in the Counties of Northumberland & Durham (1844 Newcastle)
History of the Plague of London (1880s Thomas Laurie) - Frederic Shields
Novels & Miscellaneous Works (1882 Bohn) - 7 vols
Romances and Narratives (Edited by George A Aitken) (1895 Dent) - 16 vols

20thC
Account of the Conduct & Proceedings of the Pirate Gow (1920s Sotheran) - Notes by J R Russell
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1927 Peter Davies)
- Abridged version in 2 vols. Ltd Ed 1000
Novels and Selected Writings (1927-8 Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford) - 14 vols. 530 Large Paper
The Fortunes & Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1929 Bodley Head) - John Austen
[Filmed in 1965 as "The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders"]
The Best of Defoe's Review : An Anthology (1951 Columbia UP) - ed by William L Payne
The Fortunes & Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1954 Ltds Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed by Reginald Marsh
Letters (ed George H Healey) (1955 Clarendon Press, Oxford)
A Journal of the Plague Year (1968 Heritage Press, NY) - Domenico Gnoli
A Journal of the Plague Year (1968 Ltd Eds Club, Bloomfield) - 1500 signed by Domenico Gnoli
Novels and Selected Writings (1974 Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford) - 14 vols.
Roxana, The Fortunate Mistress (1976 Ltd Eds Club, Avon CT) - 2000 signed by Bernard Kroeber
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1983 Folio Society) - 3 vols

ROBINSON CRUSOE
[Based on the true story of Scots sailor Alexander Selkirk who was marooned on the island
Juan Fernandez in 1704 until 1709]
[It first appeared in print in the pages of the London Post, or Heathcote's Intelligencer
from No. 125 to 289 (Oct. 7th, 1719) inclusive]

18thC
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner .. Written
by Himself AND The Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe
(1719-20 London. Octavo) - 3 vols
[When this was published the demand was so great that William Taylor had to employ several
printers to produce the books. Most other publishers had turned it down previously]
(1719 William Taylor, London) - anon
(1719 for William Taylor. 2nd Ed)
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719 W Taylor, London) - anon
[Three editions were produced in 4 months !]
Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
(1720 W Taylor) - anon
(1753 Longman. 8th Ed)
(1756 C Hitch & L Hawes. 12th Ed - 2 vols)
(1757-1762 Fowle & Draper, Boston)
[Perhaps the earliest surviving American edition]
(1772 for J Buckland, London) - 2 vols. 14th Ed

1801-1850
(1803 Newman, Minerva Press)
(1815 Joseph Mawman, London)
(1815 Jesse Cochran, Vermont)
(1824 Henry Mozley, Derby)
(1826 Darton)
(1831 John Major) - George Cruikshank & Thomas Stothard. 2 vols
(1844 Bohn) - Grandville
(1845 Joseph Cundall 10/6 & 15/-) - T Stothard
(1847 Loomis & Peck, Phila) - miniature

1851-1875
(c1853 Edward Lumley) - Keene
(1862 Bell & Daldy) - Edward Wehnert
(1862 Groombridge) - illus ptd by Benj Fawcett after A F Lydon
(1864 Beeton) with a Memoir of the Author. - H Anelay, E Huttula & T H Robinson
(1864 Routledge) - J D Watson
(1864 Black, Edinburgh)
(1865 Groombridge) - plates after A F Lydon
(c1866 Routledge) - Kronheim plates
(1866 Macmillan) - Millais
(1867 Cassell, Petter & Galpin) - engraved Thomas Macquoid, Leitch et al
(c1872 Cassell, P & G)
(1875 Routledge)

1876-1900
(c1880 Raphael Tuck : Father Tuck's Panorama Series)
(1882 Nimmo & Bain) - 2 vols
(1883 John Hogg, London) - Charles Heath
(1884 J W Bouton, NY) - Cruikshank. 100 Large Paper
(1885) - Gordon Browne
(1886 SPCK) - 48 lithos after Carl Marr
(1888 Routledge) - J D Watson
(1889 Cassell)
(1889 McLoughlin NY)
(c1890 Raphael Tuck) - 4 movables
(1890 Warne) - woodcuts Ernest Griset et al
(1891 Cassell) - Walter Paget
(1893 McLoughlin) - Movable
(1893 Bradbury & Evans) - Linley Sambourne
(1895 Nister, London)

20thC
(1903 Dent) - J Ayton Symington
Retold for Little Folks by Edith Roberts (1908 Blackie) - John Hassall
(1909 Houghton Mifflin, Boston) - E Boyd Smith
(1910 H & S) - designs Noel Peacock
(c1913 Harrap) - Willy Pogany
(1914 Duckworth) - Milo Winter
(c1915 A Brown & Sons. A New School Edition) - Ethel Martensen
(1917 Dent) - J A Symington
(c1925 Ward Lock "Prince Charming" Series) - A E Jackson
(1925 London) - 3 vols. 775. Intro by Charles Whibley
(1929 Etchells & MacDonald) - E McKnight Kauffer. Ltd Ed 535
(c1930 Children's Press) - John Finnemore
(c1930 Nelson) - W B Robinson
(1930s Associated Newspapers) - Elenore Plaisted Abbott
(1945 Dent) - J Ayton Symington
(1946 Doubleday) - Fritz Kredel
(1968 Nonesuch Press) - Edward Ardizzone
(1972 Folio Society) - John Lawrence
(1977 Franklin Library) - Noel Pocock
(1979 Basilisk Press) - Edward Gordon Craig Ltd Ed 515. Boxed
(nd. Warne's National Books)
(nd Milner)

FILMS
"The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" (1953)
"Crusoe" (1988)

READING
Walter Wilson : Memoirs of the Life & Times of Daniel de Foe - containing a Review of His Writings
(1830 Hurst, Chance, London) - 3 vols
William Chadwick : The Life and Times of Daniel De Foe, with remarks (1859 John Russell Smith)
William Lee : Defoe - his Life and Recently Discovered Writings (1869) - 3 vols
Thomas Wright of Olney : The Life of Daniel Defoe (1894 Cassell)
Paul Dottin : De Foe et ses romans (1924 Paris) - 3 vols
James Sutherland : Defoe (1937, 1950)
W L Payne : Mr Review - Daniel Defoe as Author of The Review
(1947 King's Crown Press, NY)
John R Moore : Defoe - Citizen of the Modern World (1958 Chiacgo)
John Robert Moore : A Checklist of the Writings of Defoe (1960 Indiana UP)
Paula R Backscheider : Daniel Defoe - His Life (1989 John Hopkins UP)
Richard West : The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe
(1997 Harper Collins £20)
Diana Souhami : Selkirk's Island (2001 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £14.99)