Folio Archives 278: Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe. 1967
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Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe. 1967
Colonel Jack is the fictitious autobiography of one Jack. As it says in the introduction, this book is about "The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, vulgarly called Col. Jack, who was born a Gentleman; put 'Prentice to a Pickpocket; was six and twenty years a Thief, and then kidnapped to Virginia; came back a Merchant; was five times married to four Whores; went into the Wars, behaved bravely, got Preferment, was made Colonel of a Regiment; came over, and fled with the Chevalier, is still abroad Completing a Life of Wonders, and resolves to die a General."
Set between about 1650 and 1720, and written in 1722, the book details life in England, France, Italy, Virginia, Cuba and other places as it was at that time, and for many different classes of society, which makes it an interesting read, as well as following the very varied adventures of Jack.
Bound in yellow cloth with a black leather spine label and blocked in brown with a wrap-around picture by John Lawrence, the 320 page book has 12 bound-in leaves of delightful and detailed two-colour full-page wood-engravings by Lawrence. There is a three page introduction by “R.M.”. The endpapers, page tops and slipcase (23.4x15.2cm.) are black.
In my copy the pictures opposite pages 263 and 282 have been interchanged, and both are inserted upside-down.
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An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
Colonel Jack is the fictitious autobiography of one Jack. As it says in the introduction, this book is about "The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, vulgarly called Col. Jack, who was born a Gentleman; put 'Prentice to a Pickpocket; was six and twenty years a Thief, and then kidnapped to Virginia; came back a Merchant; was five times married to four Whores; went into the Wars, behaved bravely, got Preferment, was made Colonel of a Regiment; came over, and fled with the Chevalier, is still abroad Completing a Life of Wonders, and resolves to die a General."
Set between about 1650 and 1720, and written in 1722, the book details life in England, France, Italy, Virginia, Cuba and other places as it was at that time, and for many different classes of society, which makes it an interesting read, as well as following the very varied adventures of Jack.
Bound in yellow cloth with a black leather spine label and blocked in brown with a wrap-around picture by John Lawrence, the 320 page book has 12 bound-in leaves of delightful and detailed two-colour full-page wood-engravings by Lawrence. There is a three page introduction by “R.M.”. The endpapers, page tops and slipcase (23.4x15.2cm.) are black.
In my copy the pictures opposite pages 263 and 282 have been interchanged, and both are inserted upside-down.
. . . . 
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
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Thanks for the post - I've not heard of this book before, but it sounds a bit like Barry Lyndon!
