NMLP P-043632 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe (published anonymously) · Printed for, and sold by W. Chetwood, at Cato's-Head in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and T. Edling, at the Prince's-Arms over-against Exeter-Change in the Strand, London · 1722

THE decisive point, and the one the census misses, is the title-page date: the first edition's imprint is a garbled Roman numeral, "MDDCXXI", which is not a valid numeral at all and reads as 1721, although the book was actually published in January 1722

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-043632 for "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders" by Daniel Defoe (published anonymously) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043632, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).