Actual date of publication from Moore and Furbank and Owens; advertised in the Post Boy for 18-20 December 1722 as "this day"., BEIN Defoe 722r: Bookplate of Lady Elizabeth Germain., In this issue, lines 13-14 of the title have "married four wives, and five of them prov'd whores;". Another later issue was corrected to "was five times married to four whores;"., and Signatures: A⁴ B-Cc⁸.
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