This 1883 printing of Daniel Defoe's...
Robinson Crusoe
...is the first exact reprint of the original 1719 first edition to be published. It reproduces the text of the novel in its exact form as first issued by the author in 1719.
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner
As Related by Himself
By Daniel Defoe
With an Introduction by Austin Dobson
Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row
London, E.C.
1883
A beautiful book, tightly bound in its original calf leather. Chipping and rubbing to edges and corners as to be expected, and some scratch marks to covers but nothing major (see pictures). Five raised bands/six compartments on spine with clear bright title label.
Exquisite marbled endpapers, very clean and bright. Previous owner inscription to second free endpaper, no other writing throughout. Some foxing but mainly to endpapers and title page...most pages there is little to no foxing, with bright clean white pages.
364 pages with 2 pages of the original 1719 publisher's adverts at back.
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