NMLP P-041333 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Moll Flanders (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders)

Daniel Defoe · W. Chetwood and T. Edling, London · 1722

The decisive point runs opposite to intuition: the first edition's title page is dated 1721, not 1722, and the Roman numeral is itself garbled — set as "MDDCXXI" — while the book was actually published on 27 January 1722; the volumes reading 1722 on the title page are the second and third editions

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041333 for "Moll Flanders (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders)" by Daniel Defoe (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041333, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).