Secret Memoirs Of the late Mr. Duncan Campbel, The Famous Deaf and Dumb Gentleman. by [?DEFOE (Daniel) and HAYWOOD (Eliza)] - 1732

Written By Himself, who ordered they Should be publish’d after his Decease. To which is added, An Appendix, by Way of Vindication Of Mr. Duncan Campbel, against that groundless Aspersion cast upon him, That he but pretended to Be Deaf and Dumb. London: Printed for J. Millan, at the Green Door, the Corner Of Buckingham-Court; and J. Chrichley, at the London-Gazette, Charing-Cross, 1732.
Post 8vo; copper-engraved portrait frontispiece by Price after Hill on text-paper; half-title not called for, but without the initial blank present in some copies; leaf bearing The Names Of the Subscribers, and Contents leaf, follow title leaf; separate title-page to the Appendix (included in the pagination); [A]?4, B-I, K-Q8; pp.[2 (frontispiece)]+[vi]+239+[i (blank)]; contemporary watered calf, leather spine label tooled and lettered gilt. Boards worn at corners; calf rubbed and worn about edges, and somewhat crudely rebacked with sheep, but preserving the original slightly chipped label; front free end-paper renewed; old (and rather faded) ownership stamp at head of title-page; original paper fault in lower margin of leaf I2 with loss of two words; two or three leaves with insignificant marks on margins; the text in general very nice. A large copy. Not to be confused with ‘The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell’ written by Defoe in collaboration with William Bond (and, possibly, Eliza Haywood) and published in 1720; or ‘A Spy upon the Conjurer: or, a Collection of Surprising Stories, with Names, Places, and particular Circumstances relating to Mr. Duncan Campbell’, written by Eliza Haywood and published in 1724. After Campbell’s death in 1730, the present volume was possibly projected by Defoe, but written by Eliza Haywood on the basis of materials left by him at his own death in 1731. The portrait frontispiece is identical to that in the work published in 1720, to which also there is allusion in the text. Largely concerned with fortune-telling, magic, witchcraft, and other aspects of the occult. The second title-page reads: ‘An Appendix, By Way of Vindication Of Mr. Duncan Campbel, Against That Groundless Aspersion cast upon Him, That he but pretended to be Deaf and Dumb. By a Friend of the Deceased. London: Printed in the Year 1732.’ Eighty-six copies were subscribed for. Whicher, ‘Eliza Haywood’, 59 and pp.85-9; Esdaile, p.179; McBurney, 273; not, apparently, in NCBEL, or CBEL; ESTC, T72257; not in Rothschild. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated.