THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE ; By DANIEL DEFOE / With Illustrations from the Designs by Thomas Stothard
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. Thomas Stothard. Illustrated Reprint adapting Designs by Thomas Stothard. Cloth and boards. 2 Volumes, 8vos (8 1/8" x 5 1/2"), one-eighth brown cloth with black labels & gold lettering over tan boards, illustrated with 16 impressed B&W plates (including frontispieces) with tissue guards lithographed after Thomas Stothard, 435
+ 397 pages. Very Good + / [Mylar added]. Item #6204
Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731) was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel ROBINSON CRUSOE (1719), which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations; also for sensationalistic Moll Flanders (1722). Both novels are first-person picaresque novels.
Thomas Stothard RA (1755 – 1834) was a orominent English painter, illustrator and engraver.
ROBINSON CRUSOE is presented as an autobiography of the title character (perhaps based upon Alexander Selkirk) – a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued.
VERY GOOD CONDITION. Illustrated with Fine B&W plates after the famous engravings of Thomas Stothard. No foxinig; the faintest age-toning to pages. Textblocks are firm. Backstrip and covers are Near Fine with minimal wear. Covers have been reinforced internally with binder's tape. (The 1820 2-vol. edition with Stothard illustrations, which this volume emulates--has been offered for more than $3,000.)
internally and externally! Dust jacket is of a type printed between 1944-1953 (Toledano, pp.165, 176). Number "362" on the inside of dust jacket indicates a publication date of 1952-53, indicating a very early reprint. Chips and losses to the edges of the dust jacket; internally, there is characteristic though very slight age-toning to the post-war (1946ish) paper. The typography on the back panel is appropriate for books published from 1944-1953 (Toledano, pp.165, 176). The internal dj printed number is "329," which equates to within 2 years of the 1946 First edition, hence an early reprint.
Price: $75.00