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The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Being the Second and Last Part of His Life and Being of the Strange and Surprising ACCOUNTS of his TRAVELS Round Three Parts of the Globe. Written by Himself (i.e. written by Daniel Defoe) Dublin: Printed for Patrick Dugan Bookseller on Cork-Hill, 1719. Appears to be an extremely scarce edition of the Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the sequel to the Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, but complete in and of itself. I could find NO copies of this edition on Worldcat.org, although a few printed for Patrick Dugan but of other subjects and authors. Patrick Dugan published a parody of Robinson Crusoe called The Life and strange surprizing adventures of Mr. D- de F- of London, Hosier... in a Dialogue between him, Robinson Crusoe and his Man Friday, a copy with three other titles was listed in the Bernard Quaritch catalogue, Midwinter, 2018, with an asking price of £12500, about $19,000 in 2024 money. Size, Binding: Small octavo or 12mo,…

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).