Author: Wyss, Johann David
Title: The Swiss Family Robinson
Description: Heirloom Library, London, No date circa 1950. First Thus, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Illustrated by: Mervyn Peake. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Bound in patterned beige cloth showing alternate images in red and green of boat and shack below palm tree; this edition has a colour frontis. 7 colour plates, b/w. drawings & colour illustrated end-papers all by Mervyn Peake. The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel by Johann David Wyss, written to entertain his four sons & first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 288 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Top edge green. Gilt titles on green panel spine. Illustrator: Mervyn Peake. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; Children's Fiction; Childrens; Adventure; Fiction. Inventory No: 4582.

Keywords: BZDB227 Children/Fiction/Childrens/Adventure/Children's Fiction Children; Children's Fiction; Childrens; Adventure; Fiction. Mervyn Peake Unbranded Johann David Wyss The Swiss Family Robinson Children's Fiction Childrens Adventure Fiction


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