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Leather-bound. H: 10" W: 6" D: 2" 4 Volumes. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Bound in full brown morocco with gilt-tooling on the covers and raised band spines. Top edges gilt. Gilt dentelles. Illustrated frontispiece and extra-illustrated throughout. London: John Stockdale, 1790.

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.