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Allman London, 1841-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. a worn allman pocket edition circa 1841 with splits to side seams with lovgely frontispiece plate opp. title page on red illustarted boards
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Written by Himself (in two volumes) by Daniel De Foe [Daniel Defoe] - 1804
by Daniel De Foe [Daniel Defoe]
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Written by Himself (in two volumes)
by Daniel De Foe [Daniel Defoe]
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London: John Stockdale, 1804. Book. Very Good +. Half-Leather. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. Second edition, with illustrated engraved title pages dated 1804. The first edition was published in 1790. Original-period red half-leather bindings with red marbled boards and ornate gilt decoration and lettering on the spines with five raised bands. Leather corners and spines have gilt ruled borders. Original pale-blue endpapers. xii + 405 and v + 446 pages (including "The Life of Daniel De Foe" by George Chalmers following the text of the novel in Vol. II) preceded by a frontispiece engraving in the first volume and preceded and followed by two blank pages in both volumes. 16 additional full-page engravings throughout both volumes. Books measure 8 13/16" x 5 3/4" x 1 1/8". Both volumes are in VERY GOOD + condition. Bright and very clean. Rubbing to the edges of the leather corners and just light general wear elsewhere. The spines only have a light touch of sunning and the gilt lettering and decoration and raised bands remain very bright and unworn. Both volumes are tightly bound, solid and square with no cracking to the leather joints or inner hinges. Interiors are excellent. All pages are bright and clean with no foxing, staining, tears or markings. Two separate previous owner's antique bookplates on the front pastedown and front endpaper in both volumes..
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Odysseus Books
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- Edition 2nd Edition
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- Publisher John Stockdale
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1804
- Keywords COLLECTIBLE, 19TH-CENTURY, LEATHER
- Size 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe written by himself
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Written By Himself
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London: J. Walker & the Other Proprietors, 1818. Fine Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Size 5" x 2¾", 638 pages. Green full leather fine binding. With tooled gilt borders and ornate tooled gilt corner pieces on the front and back covers. 3 raised bands to the spine with gilt surrounds, with gilt title in the second compartment, gilt date 1818 at the foot of the spine and gilt emblems in the other compartments. Gilt page edges and ornate gilt hatching on the cover edges and inner turn-ins. Condition very good, corners and spine edges a little rubbed, gilt worn on cover in places, stain to prelim and end pages else contents clean. With engraved frontispiece and illustration on engraved title by C. Warren after T. Uwins. The frontispiece shows Robinson on his island surrounded by his domestic animals, and the illustration on title shows Robinson in a small boat. "Robinson on his periagua, making the circuit of his island" With…
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Written by Himself; with An Account of Daniel De Foe by George Chalmers. Complete in two volumes.
by Defoe, Daniel
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
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London: John Stockdale, 1804. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Full Leather. Early. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2-volume set, complete. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, 6 compartments. Complete with 15 engraved copper plates and a portrait by Sothard in the appended Chalmers' Life of Defoe. pp. vi, 493; iii, 483. Contains the Adventures and the Father Adventures. Notice by publisher: contains full text including beautiful religious and spiritual passages omitted by other publishers. From the DNB: "Defoe's first novel, Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719 when he was about fifty-nine, brings all his interests together. Crusoe is a disobedient son, arguing with his father, representing opinions of a new world-one where life in England is uncertain but global opportunity beckons, and children are increasingly torn between traditional obedience to family and individual self-satisfaction. Drawn to the sea regardless of parental and what appear to be providential…
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Written By Himself
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London: John Stockdale, 1804. Two volumes complete - Volume One - viii, 405pp, [1] and Volume Two - v, [1], 456pp. Rebound in modern half morocco and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spine in six panels, morocco title label to second panel, author label to fourth, volume number in gilt to third, all panels framed with gilt double fillet, all edges marbled. Externally very good indeed. Internally lightly browned throughout, some light offsetting from engravings with occasional light foxing. Engraved frontispiece and title page to each volume, and thirteen plates called for (plus an extra plate not called for) between the two volumes. Large paper copy, with a Life of Defoe by Chalmers. Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834), painter and book illustrator, "many of his illustrations were for reissues, as in his celebrated illustrations for John Stockdale's edition of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe in 1790 (a sketch for Robinson Crusoe Building his Canoe is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) and it is…
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