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DEFOE, Daniel (1660–1731). The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Thomas STOTHARD, illustrator. London: printed for John Stockdale, 1790.
2 volumes, royal 8vo (216 x 130 mm). Engraved titles with vignettes, 15 engraved plates including frontispieces after Stothard by Medland; 14pp. publisher’s catalogue bound in at rear of Volume II. (Spotting to plates.) Contemporary speckled calf with single gilt border (rebacked to style). Provenance: William Lygon (armorial bookplate).
FIRST STOTHARD EDITION with the first appearance of George Chalmer’s biography of The Life of Daniel De Foe (1790) bound in Volume II with continued pagination. Stothard was the “first English artist to realize the visual potential of Robinson Crusoe” with his depiction of Crusoe being an emphasis of contentment, harmony and the nobility of man (Picturing the First Castaway, Rutgers University). Lowndes II, p. 613.
2 volumes, royal 8vo (216 x 130 mm). Engraved titles with vignettes, 15 engraved plates including frontispieces after Stothard by Medland; 14pp. publisher’s catalogue bound in at rear of Volume II. (Spotting to plates.) Contemporary speckled calf with single gilt border (rebacked to style). Provenance: William Lygon (armorial bookplate).
FIRST STOTHARD EDITION with the first appearance of George Chalmer’s biography of The Life of Daniel De Foe (1790) bound in Volume II with continued pagination. Stothard was the “first English artist to realize the visual potential of Robinson Crusoe” with his depiction of Crusoe being an emphasis of contentment, harmony and the nobility of man (Picturing the First Castaway, Rutgers University). Lowndes II, p. 613.
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DEFOE, Daniel (1660–1731). The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
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