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About this book

Robinson Crusoe was first published in April 1719, in London. In the beginning, the story was published as an autobiography, but it was later established that the author was Daniel Defoe. The novel became an instant classic, with four editions printed in the first year of publication. Often called the first English novel, it follows the story of Robinson Crusoe, a man marooned on an island. Crusoe’s adventure-packed story of survival started the genre of realistic fiction and inspired a slew of other survival novels. Over the course of its publication history, Robinson Crusoe has become the second-most translated book in the world.

From the publisher

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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British Library

T072267

In fact by Daniel Defoe. With two final advertisement leaves. In this issue, the tail-piece is a phoenix rising from the flames, and the catchword on p.3: Soci-. Printing was divided among Henry Parker (sig. B-G, O-S), Hugh Meere (sig. T-2A), and William Bowyer (sig. H-N). See Keith Maslen, 'The printers of Robinson Crusoe, ' in An early London printing house at work: studies in the Bowyer ledgers (New York, 1993).

London: printed for W. Taylor, 1719. [4],364, [4]p., plate; 8.

First Edition Identification

True first editions of Robinson Crusoe are exceedingly rare and valuable. When the book was first published in April 1719, people read it so often that most copies have since fallen to pieces. The first edition was published by William Taylor at the Ship, a place of publication on Paternoster Row, a street in London home to the city’s publishing trade. The octavo book is bound in crushed red morocco.

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Title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years All Alone in an Un-Inhabited Island
Author Daniel Defoe
Binding Paperback
Pages 378
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Date 2010-08-06
ISBN 9781171446613 / 1171446616
Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
Dimensions 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.78 in (24.61 x 18.90 x 1.98 cm)
Reading level 1320
Dewey Decimal Code FIC