Books

Three (3) volumes in polished brown 19th century calf with gilt tooling, rulings and titles, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, raised bands and compartments to spines with solid yellow dye to all edges of page blocks. Housed in bespoke slipcase. All by Francis Bedford for bookseller Basil Pickering. Volume 1 is 3rd edition (same year as 1st) and volumes 2 and 3 are first editions. Volume 1 lacks half title and 2 pages ads at rear. Bookplate of Hugh Perkins with Mosley family crest and their motto.Famous frontis engraving present. Volume 2 (1719) with engraved frontis and fold out map of the world.11 pages of ads at rear present. Volume 3 (1720) with four fold engraving (often missing) and 2 pp ads at rear. Incredibly fine set almost totally unmarked and thus an amazing survivor. Size: 12mo - over 6� - 7�" tall.

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, is one of the earliest and most influential novels in the history of English literature. It is a fictional autobiography of the title character, 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 as a comment on the British Imperialism of the age and the emerging ideology of the 'self-made man', and it reflects on the author's vast array of experiences.