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London: John Stockdale, 1790. Leather Bound. Very good/Very good. Stothard & Meland. Stothard & Meland. Leather Bound. H: 8 1/2", D: 5 1/2", W: 1 1/4" 2 Volumes. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Bound by Morrell in full marbled calf. The covers and raised band spines display gilt-tooling with brown morocco labels. All the edges are gilt with gilt-tooled dentelles. Includes a Life of the Author by George Chalmers and 2 engraved title pages, one engraved author portrait, and 14 full-page engraved plates designed by Stothard and engraved by Meland. 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.