Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1831 London 2 Vol Strutt 17 Plates Etchings UK

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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe (English, 1660-1731) (COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES) WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DEFOE WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR THIS EDITION [BY THOMAS ROSCOE], WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS [BY JACOB GEORGE STRUTT (ENGLISH, 1790-1864) AND OTHERS, AND AN ORIGINAL STEEL ENGRAVING FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT OF DEFOE BY SAMUEL FREEMAN� (ENGLISH, 1773-1857)] London: Cochrane and Pickersgill, for Roscoe's Novelists Library 1831 [First Thus] Publishing Specifics: Citation: OCLC #5242896, #151344148 & #752551660. Strutt cited in front preface to Vol 2. Printed by A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy (English, 1787-1854), Fleet Street, London. Originally bound by W. Smith, bookbinder, Ivy Lane (binder's ticket). Collation: (v1) [viii] [frontis] i-lxiv, 327pp. + 8 plates; (v2) [viii] 324pp. [4, adv]; 4 3/4”x 7” duodecimo; double labeled marbled beige cloth hardcovers Condition: Good to Very Good. Square, tight, generally bright and clean in & out, light edge wear and toning, small surface chips to spine with back joint just beginning to split of Vol 1, with excellent joints in both volumes, very light, isolated foxing and page thumbing, offsetting, brief pencil inscriptions for “Clark” to front free end papers, no missing or loose pages, no page tears, toning or unstated markings Description: A well kept two volume edition of Crusoe's wildly popular 18th Century adventure novel, from the Roscoe's Novelists Library series in their highly ephemeral marbled cloth hardcover bindings. The set includes sixteen vivid, outstanding etchings created expressly for this edition by Strutt, the English landscape painter and engraver known particularly for his precise tree renderings, who was heavily influenced by John Constable. Robinson Crusoe was first published in 1719. The first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents, 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 Pyrates. � 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 years on a remote tropical island near� Trinidad, encountering� cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. Read more about this all-time classic here . Please see our other listings for more vintage, unusual and antiquarian books . Free combined shipping within seven days of original purchase! Shipping & Payment Item(s) will be shipped day after payment is received. Item will be shipped USPS & should arrive in 7-10 days. International customers can opt for First Class International, but only at their own risk (packages in this format are not tracked and cannot be insured), also I will not commit mail fraud, so please do not ask. All items won on Saturday will be shipped the following Monday. Please add one extra day in the event of a holiday. Feel free to ask me any questions about items or policies. USPS tracking numbers will be automatically assigned to all items in The United States. Satisfaction guaranteed. Return Policy All items are photographed and described as accurately as possible. Chagrin Watershed Books is 100% dedicated to you, the satisfied customer, and I will do everything in my power to ensure transactions are smooth, easy, and reliable. Please respond within 14 days after receiving item if unsatisfied. Final price, including shipping costs will be promptly refunded after book is returned. Thank you so much for shopping at... read more

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