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Newburyport: Printed at Osborne’s Office, Market-Square, 1793. [1, title], [2, Preface], [3], 4-118 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Leather spine, blue drab paper over beech boards. Lacks flyleaves, spine and extremities worn. Very good. [1, title], [2, Preface], [3], 4-118 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. An uncommon early American juvenile adaptation of the classic novel of shipwreck and self-reliance in adversity. ESTC reports only three locations. With a nice contemporary ownership signature at the back, “Margreta Dodge her book”. ESTC W6045 (NYPL, Yale, AAS); Evans 46724; Welch 275.22; Brigham 24

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.