Author: Daniel Defoe
Title: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
Description: London, Knight and Son, 1864 . Cloth. A very scarce, vibrantly illustrated Victorian era edition of Daniel Dafoe's classic work, with plates from Joseph Martin Kronheim. A very scarce edition of this classic work of English literature, first published in 1719.Illustrated with eleven plates 'illustrated in oil colours' by Joseph Martin Kronheim a German-born lithographer and wood engraver.Collated, lacking an illustrated title page.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.Undated; dated 1864 via the British Library. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Ink marks to centre of front board, and perimeters of rear board. Hinges strained, and somewhat tender. Internally, binding strained throughout. Pages lightly age toned due to paper type, with handling marks and instances of spotting throughout. Spotting to plate perimeters, with small tide marks to tail of each plate. One plate detached and loosely inserted. Lacking illustrated title page. Good . Ill.: Joseph Martin Kronheim. Good .
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Title: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
Description: London, Knight and Son, 1864 . Cloth. A very scarce, vibrantly illustrated Victorian era edition of Daniel Dafoe's classic work, with plates from Joseph Martin Kronheim. A very scarce edition of this classic work of English literature, first published in 1719.Illustrated with eleven plates 'illustrated in oil colours' by Joseph Martin Kronheim a German-born lithographer and wood engraver.Collated, lacking an illustrated title page.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.Undated; dated 1864 via the British Library. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Ink marks to centre of front board, and perimeters of rear board. Hinges strained, and somewhat tender. Internally, binding strained throughout. Pages lightly age toned due to paper type, with handling marks and instances of spotting throughout. Spotting to plate perimeters, with small tide marks to tail of each plate. One plate detached and loosely inserted. Lacking illustrated title page. Good . Ill.: Joseph Martin Kronheim. Good .
Keywords: Joseph Martin Kronheim daniel defoe robinson crusoe daniel defoe Joseph Martin Kronheim
Price: GBP 90.00 = appr. US$ 128.52 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 914F33
- Book number: 914F33
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