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With an account of his deliverance thence and his after surprising adventures. . Edinburgh: Printed by W. Darling 1784. Sm. 8vo. Orig. full old sheep (hinges starting but sound; binding rubbed). Spine with raised bands and contrasting morocco titling label. Neat contemp. repair to spine and endpaper replaced. (324pp.). With woodcut frontispiece and 3 full-page captioned plates 1 of which is slightly creased. Text foxed/slightly soiled otherwise a very good early copy of this classic work. Complete.

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.