Title
A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time. With the remarkable actions and adventures of the two female pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny ...
Title Variants
Alternative:
General history of the pirates
By
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
London, Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, at the Black-boy in Pater-Noster-Row, 1724
Edition
2d ed., with considerable additions. By Captain Charles Johnson.
Notes
Attribution to Defoe is based on internal textual relationship to his works of proven authorship together with supporting external evidence. Cf. J. H. Moore. Defoe in the pillory. Bloomington, Ind., 1939, p. 126-188. However, see also P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens, The canonisation of Daniel Defoe, for a refutation of Defoe's authorship of this work.
First ed. was printed for C. Rivington in 1724 under title: A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates ... By Captain Charles Johnson.
Subjects
Pirates
Call Number
F2161 .D4 1724
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.85333
LCCN:
https://lccn.loc.gov/02015922
OCLC:
2276353
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