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DEFOE, Daniel. ROBINSON CRUSOE. The Life and Strange Suprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner. Written by Himself. London T. Nelson & Sons 1882 Cloth Good; School book prize plate to front end-paper. Some ink stains to preliminary sheet ends, corners and spine bumped. Some loss to final page, with no loss of text, and last free end-paper. Cloth faded. 16mo [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. Some ills. Signed Gilbert; some engraved by Jackson and Adeney. Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote island, encountering savages, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of supposedly factual events, is known as a "false document, " and gives a realistic frame to the story. The full title of the novel is The Life and Strange Surprising 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 Pirates. Written by Himself.; B&W Illustrations; 593 pages Price: 56.00 GBP
