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Paris: Chez la Veuve Panckoucke, An 8 [1799-1800]. 232 x 148 mm. (9 1/8 x 5 7/8"). Three volumes. Translated by Themiseuil de Saint-Hyacinthe and J. Van Effen, revised and corrected according to the Stockdale edition of 1790. With a life of the author by A.-G. Labaume. SPLENDID INDIGO STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, GILT, BY SIMIER (vol. I stamp-signed in gilt at foot of spine), covers with elegant botanical frame, raised bands, compartments with quatrefoil centerpiece radiating floral tools on a densely stippled ground, gilt lettering, turn-ins with cresting roll, red watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt. With portrait frontispiece in volume I, three engraved title pages with vignettes, a folding map of Crusoe's voyage, and 15 plates after Stothard engraved by Delvaux, Delignon, and Dupréel, all before letters, with original tissue guards. A Large Paper Copy. Front flyleaves of volume I with orange morocco bookplate of Henri Beraldi, engraved armorial bookplates of Merlin d'Estreux de…

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.