Books

Avec Figures. Frontis, Karte, + 6 copper plates + text vignettes. Decorated half-leather, gilt, raised bands. 632pp. Traduit de l'Anglois. Small 8vo. Covers little scuffed, pages browned and a little spotted, else good tight copy. [Ullrich 32,6].

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.