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1790 Robinson Crusoe Defoe Voyages Shipwreck Stothard Illustrated English 2v SET It is never too late to be wise. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe One of the most beautiful travel books in figures of the eighteenth century. (Gumuchian) Called the original adventure novel, Robinson Crusoe was originally published in 1719 and depicts the life of a castaway who learns to survive on an island for decades. However, while it saw substantial success with the masses, there were still those that were not impressed. Charles Dickens said, .Robinson Crusoe should be the only instance of a universally popular book that could make no one laugh and could make no one cry. This rare 1790 English edition was published in London in two volumes. The first Stockdale edition extremely rare and valuable edition! This edition was notable for being the first to include Thomas Stothard s engravings and the first to include George Chalmer s Life of Defoe . Item number: #26530 Price: $950 DEFOE, Daniel The Life and strange, surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe. London: printed for John Stockdale, 1790. 1st edition Details: Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes o Vol. 1 [22], 389, [1] 9 engraved plates (including frontispiece and vignette title page) o Vol. 2 Crusoe, Vol. II v, [1], 366 Life of Defoe [367]-456, [14] 8 engraved plates (including frontispiece and vignette title page) Provenance: Handwritten [Harriet Farnham] Language: English Binding: Leather; tight and secure Size: ~9.5in X 6in (23.5cm x 15cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 26530 Photos available upon request.

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.

The first edition of Robinson Crusoe was published without Defoe's name on it, and is titled 'The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventure of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates.' Identification is typically through comparison with known first edition features (typeset, errors, page count, publisher details, etc).