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2 volume set, 6 3/4 inches tall. Full calf by the great firm of White of Piccadilly. Dense lateral gilt tooling on a smooth back. Corner tools and twin gilt fillets frame the boards. Gilt dentelles. First published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe is considered one of the first English novels, and has been hugely influential and popular ever since. A pristine and highly attractive copy.

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.