DEFOE, Daniel (?1661-1713). The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [including George Chalmers The Life of Daniel De Foe ] . London: John Stockdale, 1790.
DEFOE, Daniel (?1661-1713). The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [including George Chalmers The Life of Daniel De Foe ] . London: John Stockdale, 1790. 2 volumes, royal 8° (221 x 133mm). Engraved titles and 14 plates after Stothard by Medland, author portrait prior to the Life of Defoe . (Title to vol. I with small burn hole in outer margin, title and frontispiece in vol. II waterstained, occasional spotting or light browning, without the list of subscribers.) Finely bound in contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco, covers with wide border of gilt fillets and roll tools, spine compartments with floral design made up of pointillé tools, green morocco title labels and volume numbers directly lettered, gilt turn-ins and edges (board edges lightly rubbed, a little ink spotting on covers). Provenance : Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate) -- Mary Forbes (bookplate at rear of vol. 2). AN ATTRACTIVELY BOUND COPY OF THE 1790 EDITION illustrated by the fashionable Thomas Stothard ESTC T72291; Hammelmann and Boase 70.
DEFOE, Daniel (?1661-1713). The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [including George Chalmers The Life of Daniel De Foe ] . London: John Stockdale, 1790.
DEFOE, Daniel (?1661-1713). The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [including George Chalmers The Life of Daniel De Foe ] . London: John Stockdale, 1790. 2 volumes, royal 8° (221 x 133mm). Engraved titles and 14 plates after Stothard by Medland, author portrait prior to the Life of Defoe . (Title to vol. I with small burn hole in outer margin, title and frontispiece in vol. II waterstained, occasional spotting or light browning, without the list of subscribers.) Finely bound in contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco, covers with wide border of gilt fillets and roll tools, spine compartments with floral design made up of pointillé tools, green morocco title labels and volume numbers directly lettered, gilt turn-ins and edges (board edges lightly rubbed, a little ink spotting on covers). Provenance : Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate) -- Mary Forbes (bookplate at rear of vol. 2). AN ATTRACTIVELY BOUND COPY OF THE 1790 EDITION illustrated by the fashionable Thomas Stothard ESTC T72291; Hammelmann and Boase 70.
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