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The life and most surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner. Containing a full and particular account how he lived twenty-eight years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America. How his ship was lost in a storm, and all his companions drowned; and how he was cast upon the shore by the wreck; with a true relation how he was at last miraculously preserved by pirates. Faithfully epitomized from the three volumes.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [between 1770 and 1780?]- Books
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Surprising memoirs of the meeting, Courtship, and sundry other humourous Adventures of the most renowned of Cripple-Beggars, Manupedirus and Stumpanympha, now supreme king and queen of the beggars in the kingdom of Ireland. To which is annex'd, their courtship, in Substance as uttered by themselves, and now only thrown into Measure, and a little better Order, in Deference to the Taste of the present Age, the politest ever was. Amor Omnibus idem. Every Jack has his Jill. By an impartial hand.
Impartial hand.Date: 1734- Books
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The orphan, a novel. In two volumes.
Elliott, Miss, novelist.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Elvira; or, the world as it goes. A novel. Dedicated to Mrs. Sawbridge. By the author of Sempronia ...
Author of Sempronia.Date: 1796- Books
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Strolabella a comical romance, containing an humourous and diverting history of a company of stroling [sic] players, with an account of the origin, progress, and declension of the vagrantes, or itinerant actors; ... Compiled by a celebrated Hottentot philosopher, ... Brought from the Cape of Good Hope by a Dutch poet, and found in the library of Alexander the copper-smith, now faithfully translated by his pupil and successor Richard the black-smith.
Bulkeley, Richard, Sir, 1644-1710.Date: 1740