Author: Defoe, Daniel.
Title: The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner.
Description: London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1790. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. Two volumes. I: xii, 389pp.; II: v, 456, 14pp. I: []1, A6, B8-Z8, Aa8-Bb8, Cc6 (- Cc6 blank); II: []1, A2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Gg8, Hh2 (Hh2 blank). First Stockdale edition. Modern brown half calf over marbled boards. With a folding copper-engraved map, and 17 copper-engraved plates (16 of them by Medland after Stothard) including the frontispieces & titles. Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, p. 131; ESTC N47632; Lowndes, III, 613; NCBEL, II, 900 (first few editions only); Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 19. Good.

Keywords: Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Imaginary Voyages


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