Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1823 Leather Fine Binding Gold Stamp Illustrated

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Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1823 Leather Fine Binding Gold Stamp Illustrated The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner Defoe, Daniel Richards, London publishers 1823 Hardback - full leather binding in an attractive mahogany brown Fine decorative binding with raised bands and gold and blind stamping 2 volumes bound as one - 240 and 220 pages. Includes a number of etched illustration, so on tipped sheets, some appear to date to 1781. Condition: Overall condition is VG+ (recall that this is a 190 year old book). Binding is tight, secure. Corners square, slight bend but little wear the leather. Spine has excellent patina, not dried or cracked. Cover color is not faded, gilt is bright. Hinges fine. The book interior is in VG+ condition. It is complete, clean, with no soiling and minimal tanning (for 190 years). No early/original owner’s name, no other mark-up of any sort. No mildew or foxing No DJ (as issued). The Net-Net: a very attractive fine binding suitable for the finest library. Daniel Defoe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Daniel Defoe (ca. 1660 – 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, now most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and, along with others such as Samuel Richardson, is among the founders of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism. Robinson Crusoe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, and was published under the considerably longer original 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 on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pirates. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story is widely perceived to have been influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile. However, other possible sources have been put forward for the text. It is possible, for example, that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island. Another source for Defoe's novel may have been Robert Knox's account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in "An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon," Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons (Publishers to the University), 1911. In his 2003 Book "In Search of Robinson Crusoe"], Tim Severin contends that the account of Henry Pitman in a short book chronicling his escape from a Caribbean penal colony and subsequent shipwrecking and desert island misadventures, is the inspiration for the story. Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. Before the end of 1719 the book had already run through four editions, and i... read more

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