1887 The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton

Description

Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

This edition published for the 'Camelot Series', edited by Welsh-English writer and founding editor of the Everyman's Library series, Ernest Rhys. 

In the publisher's original cloth binding.

This novel from Daniel Defoe, originally published in 1720, chronicles the life of an Englishman, Singleton, who is kidnapped and raised by Gypsies, eventually making his way to sea. 

Edited with an introduction and notes by Henry Halliday Sparling, a British journalist and socialist activist who assisted William Morris with editing 'Commonweal' from 1885-1890.