Daniel Defoe Dfoe (2 results)

Small octavo. 27 page pamphlet. Frontispiece portrait of the author from the 1747 engraving after L. Tocque. Bound in paper wraps with printed paper label. The front cover has a light crease at the bottom right hand corner. Very good condition.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. 39, [1] pages; The True-Born Englishman is a satirical poem published in 1701 by Daniel Defoe defending the then King of England William, who was Dutch-born, against xenophobic attacks by his political enemies, and ridiculing the notion of English racial purity. It quickly became popular. Quote, " Thus from a mixture of all kinds began, That het'rogeneous thing, an Englishman: In eager rapes, and furious lust begot Betwixt a painted Britain and a Scot. Whose gend'ring off-spring quickly learn'd to bow, And yoke their heifers to the Roman plough: From whence a mongrel half-bred race there came, With neither name, nor nation, speech nor fame. In whose hot veins new mixtures quickly ran, Infus'd betwixt a Saxon and a Dane While their rank daughters, to their parents just, Receiv'd all nations with promiscuous lust. This nauseous brood directly did contain The well-extracted blood of Englishmen. Stitched into later[? ] brown wrappers. Complete and clear. Text has the commonly found shallow waves probably from moisture or from drying ink. A very nice copy of this fragile pamphlet.