1744 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Shipwreck English Adventure Voyage Mariner

“It is never too late to be wise.”

― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“One of the most beautiful travel books in figures of the eighteenth century" (Gumuchian)

Called the original adventure novel, Robinson Crusoe was originally published in 1719 and depicts the life of a castaway who learns to survive on an island for decades. However, while it saw substantial success with the masses, there were still those that were not impressed. Charles Dickens said, “...Robinson Crusoe should be the only instance of a universally popular book that could make no one laugh and could make no one cry.”

This edition, printed in 1744, includes a facsimile title page and frontispiece from the 1719 edition. This printing meets the collation of the 1744 edition.

Item number: #3320

Price: $499



DEFOE, Daniel

The life, and strange surprizing adventures of Robeson Crusoe, mariner : Who lived eight and twenty years alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River Oroonoque. Who having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the ship's crue perished but himself. With an account how he was at last taken up and preserv'd by pyrates. Written by himself and deliver'd to a friend.

[Dublin : Printed for George Golding in High-street, and Isaac Jackson, 1744.]

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

•[5], 6-288

oFacsimile frontispiece and title page

oReferences: Lowndes 614; ESTC T 72266;

•Language: English

•Binding: Softcover; tight & secure

•Size: ~6.5in X 4.25in (16.5cm x 11cm)

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