2 vols 404; v 446pp with XVIII engraved plates by Medland, with top portion of plate 12 torn and missing, including an extra unlisted plate, scattered foxing, bound in contemporary 3q black calf with gilt bands to spine and contrasting labels gilt over marbled boards, rubbing to faces of boards and extremities, ownership signatures to end-papers, some dog-ears, marbled end-papers, ?white paint mark to area of frontis. of vol I, with 'The Life of Daniel Defoe by George Chalmers at end of vol II, pagination continuous with frontispiece portrait of Defoe