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London, 1772. Good. The Life and Strange surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, by Daniel Defoe, 1772, London. A Rare and attractive early copy of one of the classics of English literature-Robinson Crusoe. Illustrated with colored engravings in the first volume and a folding map in the second volume, our two volumes set was printed in 1772 in London. Defoe's Masterpiece, which initiated an entirely new literary form. Written with a keen eye to a contemporary taste for travel and the exotic largely inspired by Britain's burgeoning power as an international trading nation, the novel was an immediate and massive success both among the greatest thinkers of the age and the reading public, passing through four editions in its first year. It is second only to the Bible in number of translations. Two volumes, clothbinding, slightly worn. 288, 275 pages 12 x 18 cm.

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.