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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. With a Biographical Sketch of De Foe
by Defoe, Daniel
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Cochrane and Pickersgill, 1831. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [5], ii-lxiv, [1], 2-327pp, [1] and Volume Two - [5], 2-324pp. Contemporary half morocco, smooth back, with title and running title inside an attractive frame to spine, marbled sides, edges, and marbled endpapers. Rubbed to extremities. Internally an occasional hint of foxing, offsetting from frontispiece on to title, some very light off setting from other illustrations, but generally quite bright and clean. Small bookseller's label to reverse of marbled front endpaper. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Eden to front pastedowns. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of Defoe engraved by Freeman, and sixteen illustrations by J.G. Strutt, "whose etchings of trees, published as 'Sylva Britannica' and 'Deliciae Sylvarum', had recently bought him a great reputation" (Sadleir II, page 109). In the 'Roscoe's Novelists Library' series, the only one of the series not illustrated by Cruikshank. Sadleir 3736a. First Thus. Hardback. Good. Illus. by Strutt, Jacob George. 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- Zetetic Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003864
- Title
- The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. With a Biographical Sketch of De Foe
- Author
- Defoe, Daniel
- Illustrator
- Strutt, Jacob George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Cochrane and Pickersgill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1831
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Noisbn, Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nineteenth Century; Literature and Literary Criticism;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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