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.
| Uniform Title: | Robinson Crusoe. Part 1
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row,
MDCCXIX [1719]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Ownership and Custodial History: |
Inscription in an early hand on title page: "H Crookall"; modern booksellers' notes in pencil on verso of front free end-paper, verso of title page, and verso of second rear end-paper. |
| Local Note: |
MSU: Lacking two final advertisement leaves (2A7-8); print-outs of pages from British Library copy available in MSS 466, Box 5, Folder 147.
MSU: Library copy has "before" as catchword on page 260. |
| Binding Information: |
In full 19th-century(?) panelled calf; boards tooled and stamped in blind; boards and spine tooled in gilt; spine stamped and lettered in gilt; two leather spine labels (one red, one green) lettered in gilt; all edges gilt; marbled end-papers; navy blue silk page-marker. |
| Physical Description: | 4 unnumbered pages, 364 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm (octavo) |
| Format: | Book |