A BRIEF REPLY TO THE HISTORY OF STANDING ARMIES IN ENGLAND. With some Account of the Authors

by Daniel Defoe

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First edition

Pp. vi +24 last blank ; small f'cap. 4to; modern half dark brown calf, spine with gilt lettered maroon leather title label, light brown cloth boards; all edges sprinkled red; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, binder's ticket at foot of lower pastedown, the endpapers slightly browned, tiny chip to top edge of title page, archival tape repair to closed tear at fore-edge of pp. 7/8, a couple of spots of foxing and occasional slight soiling; London, 1698. First edition.

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