DE FOE AS A PREFACE WRITER. 389

 

“ The success the former
part of this work has met THE FARTHER]
with in the world, has yet
been no other than eh ADVENTURE |
knowledged to be due to
the surprising variety of R OB INSO: N CR US OE;
the subject, and to the ¢
agreeable manner of the Being the Second. and Laft Parr
performance. All the en- OF HIS
deavours of envious people :
to reproach it with being L I FE F 5
a romance, to search it for :
errors in geography, in- And of the Staancz Suncaizino
consistency in the rela-
tion, and contradictions in

the fact, have proved abor- | Round diree Parts ef the Globe
|

 

Accounts of his TRAVELS

tive, and as impudent as
malicious. The just ap-
plication of everyincident,
the religious and useful
inferences drawn from
every part, are so many
testimonies to the good
design of making it pub-
lice, and must legitimate
all the part that may
be called invention, or
parable, in the story. The
Second Part, if the editor’s
opinion may pass, is (con-
trary to the usage of REDUCED FACSIMILE OF TITLE PAGE TO VoL. 0, OF THE
second parts) every way FIRST EDITION OF ROBINSON CRUSOE.

as entertaining as the First, contains as strange and surprizing incidents,
and as great a variety of them; nor is the application less serious, or
suitable ; and doubtless will, to the sober, as well as ingenious reader,
be everyway as profitable and diverting. And this makes the abridging
this work * as scandalous as it is knavish and ridiculous, seeing, while
to shorten the book, that they may seem to reduce the value, they strip
it of all those reflections, as well religious as moral, which are not only
the greatest beauties of the work, but are calculated for the infinite
advantage of the reader. By this they leave the work naked of its
brightest ornaments; and if they would, at the same time, pretend that

 

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To which is 2dded 8 Map of the World, in which is
Delineated the Voyages uf ROBINSON CRUSOE.

 

LONDON: Printed for W. Larror at the
Ship in Foter-Nofler-Row, Mpccxix.
ae es es es,

* An abridgment had been published by a bookseller named Cox.—See Lee’s ‘‘ Life
of Daniel De Foe,” i. 295.