?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[DEFOE, DANIEL or BOND, WILLIAM, attributed to.] The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell. . . who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, writes down any Stranger's Name at first Sight; with their future Contingencies of Fortune. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 3 plates, including sign language chart. xix, [5], 320 pages. 8vo, 191x117 mm, contemporary panelled calf, recased with front joint reinforced, endpapers sympathetically renewed; occasional toning of text, plates clean. Bookplate of Thomas Symonds of Pengethly. London: E. Curll for W. Mears and T. Jauncy et al., 1720
first edition of the purported autobiography of a notorious deaf and mute fortune teller (d. 1730), formerly thought to have been written by Defoe but more likely by Bond. Furbank & Owens, Defoe De-Attributions 432.
![[DEFOE, DANIEL or BOND, WILLIAM, attributed to.] The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell. 1720](https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/full//259\760259.jpg)
![[DEFOE, DANIEL or BOND, WILLIAM, attributed to.] The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell. 1720](https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/full//259\760259_view 02_02.jpg)
![[DEFOE, DANIEL or BOND, WILLIAM, attributed to.] The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell. 1720](/Content/images/image-placeholder.png)
![[DEFOE, DANIEL or BOND, WILLIAM, attributed to.] The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell. 1720](https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/thumb//\259\760259tn.jpg)
![[DEFOE, DANIEL or BOND, WILLIAM, attributed to.] The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell. 1720](https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/thumb//\259\760259_view 02_02tn.jpg)