INTRODUCTION
A Vindication of the Press is one of Defoe's most characteristic pamphlets and for this reason as well as for its rarity deserves reprinting. Besides the New York Public Library copy, here reproduced, I know of but one copy, which is in the Indiana University Library. Neither the Bodleian nor the British Museum has a copy.
Like many items in the Defoe canon, this tract must be assigned to him on the basis of internal evidence; but...
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