Author: Daniel Defoe
Title: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; the Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Description: London, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, 1761 . Leather. The very scarce 1761 two volume twelfth edition of Daniel Defoe's important epistolary novel, illustrated throughout. The scarce two volume twelfth edition of Defoe's classic work of English literature, first published in 1719. A very desirable illustrated edition. Volume I illustrated with seven plates, and volume II with five plates. Collated, lacking the very scarce folding map frontispiece to volume II as usual, and lacking also one further plate.A fictional autobiography of the title character, a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives and mutineers before being rescued. The novel was immediately well received, and is often credited as marking the beginnings of realistic fiction as a literary genre, and as a contender for the position of first English novel.Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing hundreds of works on diverse topics including politics, crime, religion, marriage and the supernatural, but is best remembered for this work.ESTC reference number T72281With the stamp of Cornwell House to each front free endpaper, with the inscription 'The author of this work is said to have been Daniel De-Foe' to volume I.A smart and very scarce edition of this important work. In full calf bindings. Head of rear joint of volumes I and II, and head of front joint of volume II starting, with boards holding firm. Stamps to front free endpapers. Inscription to front free endpaper of volume I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with the odd instance of spotting. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
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Title: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; the Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Description: London, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, 1761 . Leather. The very scarce 1761 two volume twelfth edition of Daniel Defoe's important epistolary novel, illustrated throughout. The scarce two volume twelfth edition of Defoe's classic work of English literature, first published in 1719. A very desirable illustrated edition. Volume I illustrated with seven plates, and volume II with five plates. Collated, lacking the very scarce folding map frontispiece to volume II as usual, and lacking also one further plate.A fictional autobiography of the title character, a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives and mutineers before being rescued. The novel was immediately well received, and is often credited as marking the beginnings of realistic fiction as a literary genre, and as a contender for the position of first English novel.Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing hundreds of works on diverse topics including politics, crime, religion, marriage and the supernatural, but is best remembered for this work.ESTC reference number T72281With the stamp of Cornwell House to each front free endpaper, with the inscription 'The author of this work is said to have been Daniel De-Foe' to volume I.A smart and very scarce edition of this important work. In full calf bindings. Head of rear joint of volumes I and II, and head of front joint of volume II starting, with boards holding firm. Stamps to front free endpapers. Inscription to front free endpaper of volume I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with the odd instance of spotting. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: robinson crusoe moll flanders defoe desert island moll flanders Not Stated
Price: GBP 950.00 = appr. US$ 1356.59 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 844F3
- Book number: 844F3
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