DEFOE, DANIEL.--The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History Of The Life And Vast Variety of Fortunes Of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Call'd The Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany. Being the Person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II. London: Printed for T. Warner . . . ; W. Meadows . . . ; W. Pepper . . . ; S. Harding . . . ; and T. Edlin. . . . 1724. _8vo, red levant morocco, rich gilt back and side borders, doubled with red morocco, gilt borders, red silk guards, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery._
First edition. Full-length portrait of Roxana.
DEFOE, DANIEL.--The Life and Adventures of Roxana, the fortunate mistress; or, most unhappy wife.
I. An Account of her Birth in France, in 1683.
II. Her Marriage in London with a Brewer, who ran out his Estate, and left her in a destitute Condition with five Children.
III. Her cohabiting with her Landlord, their Journey to Paris, where her Gallant was robbed, and murdered.
IV. Her being in Love with by the Prince of ---- by whom she had a Son; her going with the Prince to the Palace of Mendon, where she saw her Husband, who had entered in the Gens d'Arms Guard, the Prince leaves her.
V. The Dealings she had with a Dutch Merchant and a Jew, the latter of whom wanted to defraud her of a great Parcel of her Jewels, her Return, in a dangerous Storm to England; her going afterwards to Rotterdam, where she sees the Dutch Merchant, to whom she soon after became a Bedfellow.
VI. Her return to England again, living a great Lady, where she had the Name of Roxana. Her Marriage with the Dutch Merchant in London, who was naturalized, and created a Baronet; the Miseries she and her Maid Amy fell afterwards into.
Embellished with curious Copper Plates. London: Printed for H. Owen, . . . and C. Sympson, . . . M DCC LV. _Small 8vo, blue levant morocco, gilt back and edges, by Chambolle-Duru._
Portrait by Parr, and folded plate, "Roxana in her Turkish Habit."
A later edition of "The Fortunate Mistress," divided into chapters, as the first edition was not, and containing two leaves of Contents. The text of the first edition ends on page 344, in the middle of chapter xvii, but the work has been extended by the unknown editor through page 463 into twenty-two chapters in the manner of Defoe. (Chapter xx is misprinted xix.) The last page contains a paragraph headed "The Continuation of the Life of Roxana, by Isabel Johnson, who had been her Waiting-Maid, from the Time she was thrown into Jail, to the Time of her Death." The text of the last page of the first edition is not here included.