Was Gulliver’s Travels first published before Robinson Crusoe?

Gulliver’s Travels and Robinson Crusoe are often read side by side as early classics of English fiction, both stories of shipwreck and strange lands, and it is hard to remember which came first. Robinson Crusoe did. Daniel Defoe’s novel was first published in 1719, seven years before Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, which appeared in London, without its author’s name, on 28 October 1726. Both books have been reprinted, shortened and adapted so many times, for children and for the screen, that the dates of familiar editions and films blur the original order. Both authors were writing in the same years, but their books arrived seven years apart. This duel compares the first publication of each original book, not sequels, translations or later editions.