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Author

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Title The history of the life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell [microform] : a gentleman, who, tho' deaf and dumb, writes down any stranger's name at first sight; with their future contingencies of fortune. Now living in Exeter court over-against the Savoy in the Strand.

Imprint

London : Printed for E. Curll: and sold by W. Mears and T. Jauncy, W. Meadows, A. Bettesworth, W. Lewis, and W. Graves, 1720.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets	LEL 12012	---	Available

Description	xix, [4], 320 p. : port., plates.
Series	Library of English literature ; LEL 12012
Note	Includes table of contents.
	Caption title: The history of the life and surprizing adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell.
	"The method of teaching deaf and dumb persons to write, read, and understand a language" [by John Wallis. cf. Dictionary of national biography]: p. 38-55.
	Authorship disputed; probably by Defoe, though ascribed also to William Bond under whose name it appeared in 1728, with new title: The supernatural philosopher; or, The mysteries of magick ... unfolded by William Bond. cf. Dictionary of national biography; Cambridge history of English literature, v. 9; Georges Dottin's "Daniel DeFoe et ses romans" (1924) p. 261.
Reproduction	Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 12012)
Note	s 1976 ilu n
Subject	Campbell, Duncan, 1680?-1730.
	Precognition.
	Deaf -- Means of communication.
Added Author	Bond, William, -1735, supposed author.
	Wallis, John, 1616-1703. Method of teaching deaf and dumb persons to write, read, and understand a language.
Added Title	Duncan Cambell [microform]