

Transcribed from the 1887 Cassell & Company by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

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                       CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY.

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                                    AN
                           ESSAY UPON PROJECTS.


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                                    BY
                              DANIEL DEFOE.

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                       CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited:
                _LONDON_, _PARIS_, _NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_.
                                   1887




INTRODUCTION.


DEFOE’S “Essay on Projects” was the first volume he published, and no
great writer ever published a first book