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A complete copy of the First Stockdale edition of Robinson Crusoe, with all 17 plates including the 2 engraved vignette titles. Two volumes in period full polished tree calf. Spines gilt tooled, with later morocco title labels. Vol 1 with repaired split to spine. Attractive set in period leather, very occasional light soiling to text.

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.