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London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1719. Full Description: DEFOE, Daniel. The Life, and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself. The Fourth Edition. London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1719. The rare fourth edition, second issue (Hutchins 4B). With a comma after ‘Life’; The tail-pieces at the bottom of page 364 with a bowl of fruit, page "317" incorrectly numbered "217", the two ship vignettes slightly different and no "Part I" on leaf T. The fourth edition was published the same year as the first edition. Octavo (7 5/8 x 4 9/16 inches; 194 x 116 mm). [4], 364, [4, ads] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Robinson Crusoe by Clark & Pine.…

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.