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London: John Stockdale, 1804. Leather. Near Fine. 10.5" by 8.5". Thomas Stothard. A very smart large paper edition of Daniel Defoe's important travelogue novel, a nice copy illustrated throughout by Thomas Stothard. The second Stockdale edition, a smart large paper issue.Smartly rebound in a modern quarter morocco binding.Complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, and eight plates. Seven of the plates are called for, this volume including one additional plate fading page 176. Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, and six plates.Collated, complete.Including a 'Life of Daniel Defoe' to the rear of Volume II, by George Chalmers.'Robinson Crusoe' is a popular travelogue-style novel, seeing Crusoe's struggles as he spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical desert island.The novel is thought to be based off the experiences of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk.Written by the noted eighteenth century author Daniel Defoe, one of the first novelists…

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.