An Account of Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of a Private Gentleman (London: J. Downing, 1708).

An Account of some Remarkable Passages in the Life of a Private Gentleman: with Reflections thereon. In Three Parts. Relating to Trouble of Mind, some violent Temptations, and a Recovery, in order to awaken the Presumptuous. and encourage the Despondent. Left under his own Hand, to be communicated to the Publick after his Decease. Printed and Sold by Joseph Downing. 1708.

Description

304 pp. 8°

Shelf-marks

{L: 859.h.26}

Bibliographical Reference

W. H. McBurney (1960), p.14

Author

Ascribed to Defoe by Esdaile and by Halkett and Laing. According to Morgan, this ascription is erroneous.

History of Publication

1. An Account of Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of a Private Gentleman (London: J. Downing, 1708).
2. [...] second edition, with additions (London: J. Downing/ N. Cliff/ D. Jackson, 1711).
3. An Abstract of the Remarkable Passages in the Life of a Private Gentleman (London: J. Read/ R. Burleigh, 1715). [Drastically condensed, especially reflexions have been cut.]
4. [...] (1765) [ESTC: t163882].

Remarks

Cf. [...] second edition, with additions (London: J. Downing/ N. Cliff/ D. Jackson, 1711).

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