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8vo. Later red half calf. Two volums. XII, 390 ; V, 456, (14) pp. 2 engraved titles, 2 engraved frontispieces, 13 engraved plates. Nice set, a few foxings.

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.